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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)

submitted 9 months ago by MarcoPOLO to c/[email protected]

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Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Why? What's wrong with safe, managed and fast languages?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Java's runtime has had a large number of CVEs in the last few years, so that's probably a decent reason to be concerned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yep but:

it's one runtime, so patching a CVE patches it for all programs (vs patching each and every program individually)
graalvm is taking care of enabling java to run on java

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Nothing...

Only that descrition doesn't include Java

[–] ScreaminOctopus 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nothing really, the JVM has a pretty troubled history that would really make me hesitate to call it "safe". It was originally built before anyone gave much thought to security and that fact plauges it to the present day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

and how much of this troubled history is linked to Java Applets/native browsers extensions, and how much of it is relevant today?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Written in C++

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

There's a difference between writing code on a well-tested and broadly used platform implemented in C++ vs. writing new C++.