After two years of being beaten with the memory-safety stick, the C++ community has published a proposal to help developers write less vulnerable code. The Safe C++ Extensions proposal aims to address the vulnerable programming language's Achilles' heel, the challenge of ensuring that code is free of memory safety bugs. "This is a revolutionary proposal that adds memory safety features to the C++ programming language," Vinnie Falco, president and executive director of the C++ Alliance, said Thur...