std::vector<int> v;
  v.push_back(123);
  auto& n= v.front();
  v.push_back(456);
  auto n_doubled= n * 2;

The only thing that's less great is that this got so much less upvotes than all the Safe-C++ languages that never really had the chance to get into production in old code.

Once again C++ people imagining into existence Undefined Behaviour which isn't Security Critical as if somehow that's a thing.

Mostly I read the link because I was intrigued as to how this counted as "at scale" and it turns out that's misleading, the article's main body is about the (at scale) deployment at Google, not the actual hardening work itself which wasn't in some special way "at scale".

Seems like the daily anti c++ post