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The New Stack covers
a conference talk by Bjarne Stroustrup on turning C++ into a safer
language.

Stroustrup has arrived at his solution: profiles. (That is, a set
of rules which, when followed, achieve specific safety guarantees.)
They’d be defined by the ISO C++ standard, addressing common safety
issues like pointers and array ranges. In response to a later
question from the audience about the difficulty of adding new
tooling, Stroustrup pointed out that the C++ compiler itself is now
a pretty sophisticated static analyzer, and could also be tasked
with meeting the profile’s requirements.