You may have noticed that all the examples neither used the ampersand & when referencing functions, nor the asterisk * when dereferencing pointers to execute their underlying functions.

Percentage of memory safety issues has been hovering at 70 percent for the past 12 years.

The report suggests the industry could gain data on the companies that are hiring people who know memory-safe languages, and those who require C/C++, by inspecting a software bill of materials (SBOM).