592: C++ Safety Dance

Coder Radio

C++'s Borg-like mission continues, and some thoughts on Rails 8.1. Plus, there is a little trouble in Microsoft Paradise. And why Chris finally paid for an LLM.

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• What is the new safe C++ proposal and what do programmers need to know? — The work is being done via the C++ Alliance, and its president and executive director Vinnie Falco said that this was, “a revolutionary proposal that adds memory safety features to the C++ programming language.”
• Safe C++ — Over the past two years, the United States Government has been issuing warnings about memory-unsafe programming languages with increasing urgency. Much of the country’s critical infrastructure relies on software written in C and C++, languages which are very memory unsafe, leaving these systems more vulnerable to exploits by adversaries.
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• OpenAI, Microsoft reportedly hire banks to renegotiate partnership terms — The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that OpenAI is being advised by Goldman Sachs. Microsoft, in turn, has reportedly hired Morgan Stanley. The two banks previously participated in a deal that gave the ChatGPT developer access to a $4 billion revolving line of credit.
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