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There are no major blows required. The idea that carefully written C/C++ code is just as safe was never tenable in the first place, and obviously so.



And yet there are still many people, some who comment here, who think that they can and do write C/C++ carefully enough to avoid memory safety bugs. The hubris and arrogance is mind-boggling.




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