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It is, however those same companies aren't dialing full safe ahead knob either, hence why Microsoft just recently published a set of secure coding guidelines for C and C++.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/build-reliable-and-se...




Does it have tooling to enforce those guidelines? If not, how is it better than someone saying "write correct code" and calling it a guideline?


Following a guideline that checks correctness for you is easier than following "write correct code".


Partially, in Visual Studio and GitHub.


Quite annoying to read in my native language, German. Do they use automatic translations? It's full of grammar errors and mistranslations.




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