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Manual memory management has its place, especially in lavc. > In lavf less so. RAII would do wonders in de-gotofying error handling. > Features like std::filesystem, std::chrono, std::thread etc abstract > away many OS particularities. Thorough STL-ification would render parts > of lavu obsolete. avstring.*, bprintf.* and tree.* come to mind. This > would have security benefits. Another reason is stronger typing, which > tends to reveal bugs. Just for the sake of the argument: Wouldn't it be better to opt for an even safer language than C++, like Rust? C++ has received a lot of criticism in being just as memory unsafe as C, and I personally think that it adds an epic amount of complexity to writing correct code. Although - that may or may not be the case depending on where and how it's used in the code base. I don't have any preference either way, but it seems to me that investing effort to make the internals of FFmpeg safer and easier to use would be better spent on a more modern and robust language than C++. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list -- ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org To unsubscribe send an email to ffmpeg-devel-leave@ffmpeg.org