The nonprofit Consumer Reports foundation has done a study of, of all things, memory safety in computer software <https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/26/memory_safety_mainstream/>. It apparently came to the need for this after putting together a consumer-focused guide to online security. Seems like greater adoption of the Rust programming language is becoming a key part of improving the situation. Asked about C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup's assertion that ISO standard C++ can be memory safe when rules are enforced with static analysis, [Josh Aas, of the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group] expressed skepticism. "In a very theoretical sense that ignores the practicalities of the real world, that might be true," he said. "It might very theoretically be practically possible to write memory safe C++. But it's just not how things work in our world. There are just better ways to do that. C++ was not designed from the ground up to offer memory safety."