You got me, I decided to read the article later (I hope to, at least). But your summary looks about right, I don’t really expect C++ to become much safer than it is now, which is not very much. Should take a look at profiles, I love a good laugh
Edit: looked up those ``profiles’', it looks like a vague and complicated proposal that will require an unrealistic amount of undertaking. But that might be seen as being in the spirit of C++
Reminds me of one site that said I shouldn’t use ‘git secret’ because reasons. I’ve spent quite some time to find what do they propose to use instead (that wasn’t as straightforward as in this article), turns out they provide a ‘solution’ that includes their partners’ system to manage secrets. Another bullshit, in other words