No, C++ still isn't cutting it.

A recent blog post asked "Does C++ still deserve its bad rap?" While that title presumes the answer (after all, a "bad rap" implies that the judgement is undeserved), I think C++'s reputation for making it very difficult to achieve security or memory safety or thread-safety remains well-deserved, even though it's gotten a lot better over the years. I mean that: The c++-17 version of that program i