For the past 7 years I've been working almost exclusively with Java, with a bit of csh/bash scripting and a few simple single-line fixes to C code. My C++ experience is pre-1997. Temporarily, however, ...

How pointers create pitfalls for a number of hard-to-detect programming errors. How Rust avoids these pitfalls and catches most pointer errors at compile time. Pointers have been a staple of ...