The 2026 Memory Safety Mandate: Why We’re Finally Fixing the Foundation of Code
Imagine for a second that 70% of all car accidents were caused by the exact same mechanical failure—say, a specific bolt that just happened to shake loose on every highway in the world. We wouldn’t just tell drivers to be more careful; we would demand a new kind of bolt. In the world of software, we’ve been living with that loose bolt for forty years, and its name is memory corruption. ...