For two decades, memory safety was treated as a discipline problem — write better C. In 2026 it is an economic and regulatory one. A survey of the 70% number, the Android CVE data that finally proved the fix, where Rust actually landed across kernels, what Carbon is really for, the regulations putting teeth behind it, and the honest decade-long path out of a hundred-billion-line C/C++ installed base.
Carbon
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Memory Safety in 2026: The CVE Data, the Regulatory Cliff, and the Long Goodbye to C -
Carbon: Google's Bet on a C++ Successor A deep technical look at Carbon, Google's experimental C++ successor language — what's real, what's aspirational, the C++ interoperability story, checked generics, memory safety roadmap, and an honest assessment of whether it has any chance of succeeding.