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		xiphias2 on Oct 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013) The biggest problem with C++ is that all real life production code is full of memory safety bugs. People usually just live with it. If you want to minimize memory safety issues, C++ becomes even harder than Rust.

jokoon on Oct 4, 2019 [–]

STL containers usually makes things easier.

Usually the libraries deal with low level issues and are doing the hard work of increasing safety.

Safety will always has a cost somewhere.

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