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		IshKebab on Dec 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thread Safety in C++ and Rust He's right. Lack of safety is clearly not the point of C++. Nobody said "and we want this language to be unsafe!". It's unsafe as an unfortunate side effect of the real point of C++: zero cost abstractions. If there had been a way to make C++ safe and have zero cost abstractions (and be backwards compatible with C!) I'm sure they'd have done it.

fulafel on Dec 19, 2021 [–]

C compatibility is the showstopper. And since everything was built on unsafe foundations of C compatibility, there could be no coherent language design principles serving safety.

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