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I would disagree. In most programming languages, compiler errors and even linters lag by orders of magnitude behind the practices that will actually let you write code that stands a chance of being safe and secure.

I haven't looked at this specific list yet, but I am yet to see a C++ project in which code works just by following what the tools tell you.

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Maybe I’m arguing semantics, but my point is “need” seems a little subjective here. You can write insecure/unsafe/unreliable code and it’ll still run and compile just fine. You probably don’t want to, but you don’t “need” every program to be safe.

I find tools are very helpful to reminding me of rules I forgot to apply, but they can only detect a limited subset of places where I forget to apply tools.

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