I am going to show you how to compile a C++ program on Linux. I’ll demonstrate it on Ubuntu Desktop 23.04, I’ll use the tried and true Hello, World! app as an example.

A program with a data race bug can run perfectly hundreds of times in the same environment with the same inputs, yet still fail with confusing and mysterious symptoms when executed once more.

This is why C++20 decided to double-down on stream formatting and fudging in printf-like support with std::format and other functions in the new <format> header. Because things can always get worse.

Google can't just rip and replace Chromium's existing C++ code with memory safer Rust, but it is working on ways to improve the memory safety of C++ by scanning heap allocated memory.