Scope. To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. I chair the ISO C++ standards committee and I work for Microsoft, but these are my personal opinions and I hope they will invite more dialog across programming language and security communities. Acknowledgments. Many thanks to people from the C, C++, C#, Python, Rust, MITRE, and other language and security communities whos...