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		WalterBright on May 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chromium project finds that 70% of security defect... D has been steadily focusing on solving memory safety problems. It now has a prototype ownership/borrowing system incorporated into the language.

eatonphil on May 24, 2020 [–]

C++ also has ownership/borrowing system (i.e. smart pointers) now though too, right? I'm a fan of D but isn't the problem about 1) defaults (or even required behavior) and 2) existence of libraries following good paradigms more so than just support for static memory management?

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