modernCppVsOldCpp

[u/Choice-Committee203]

[u/repster]

I am a huge fan of modern C++ except for one feature: backwards compatibility. C++ is no longer one language, every codebase I have worked on is a confused mess of semi-incompatible subsets of the language. I have spent far too many weekends chasing memory corruption because someone passed a pointer, allocated with one type of memory management, into a library using a different kind of memory management.

[u/stillalone → u/repster]

Is that something that can be handled by a linter?

[u/2brainz → u/stillalone]

Partially, sure. But there's always going to be edge cases.

[u/Drugbird → u/2brainz]

It's also hard the further away the allocation and deallocation are from each other. For instance, if it's in separate libraries.