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| ### There's promising research that could yield a solution that is both more simple and more elegant than rust-style borrow checking. Why not wait? | ||
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| The security community and regulators are actively pushing developers towards memory safe languages with official guidance since 2022. Does C++ stay on the do-not-use list or does C++ become a memory safe language? |
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| ### There's promising research that could yield a solution that is both more simple and more elegant than rust-style borrow checking. Why not wait? | |
| The security community and regulators are actively pushing developers towards memory safe languages with official guidance since 2022. Does C++ stay on the do-not-use list or does C++ become a memory safe language? | |
| ### Aren’t there some other promising experiments supposedly on the horizon that could yield a simpler and more-elegant solution than Rust-style borrow checking. Why not wait? | |
| There are no other experiments on the horizon. And in the meantime, government organizations and others continue to publish document such as the [CISA “Product Security Bad Practices” guidance](https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/product-security-bad-practices) containing statements like this: | |
| > _For existing products that are written in memory-unsafe languages, not having a published memory safety roadmap by January 1, 2026 is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety._ | |
| So, we don’t have the luxury of being able to wait around for other people to eventually appear with hypothetically “better” solutions. And so the question is: What concretely can we be working on together right now to make sure that C++ gets on the _“has a published memory safety roadmap”_ by January 2026 at the latest? |
| * [Why is `std::*` missing from `std2`?](#why-is-std-missing-from-std2) | ||
| * [Won't `std2` lead to an extreme function coloring problem?](#wont-std2-lead-to-an-extreme-function-coloring-problem) | ||
| * [Are there runtime checks?](#are-there-runtime-checks) | ||
| * [There's promising research that could yield a solution that is both more simple and more elegant than rust-style borrow checking. Why not wait?](#theres-promising-research-that-could-yield-a-solution-that-is-both-more-simple-and-more-elegant-than-rust-style-borrow-checking.-why-not-wait) |
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| * [There's promising research that could yield a solution that is both more simple and more elegant than rust-style borrow checking. Why not wait?](#theres-promising-research-that-could-yield-a-solution-that-is-both-more-simple-and-more-elegant-than-rust-style-borrow-checking.-why-not-wait) | |
| * [Aren’t there some other promising experiments supposedly on the horizon that could yield a simpler and more-elegant solution than Rust-style borrow checking. Why not wait?](#arent-there-some-other-promising-experiments-supposedly-on-the-horizon-that-could-yield-a-simpler-and-more-elegant-solution-than-rust-style-borrow-checking-why-not-wait) |
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This is a first draft of what a FAQ section could look like. This is meant to answer clear questions succinctly.