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And yet, you can happily have a UAF through a string_view.

This is not about C++ developers using old school C approaches. The language is fundamentally dangerous. There were huge efforts within Chrome to get all memory managed by smart pointers even more powerful than those offered by the standard, and they still have UAFs all the time.




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