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

submitted 1 year 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] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meanwhile the report does not really single out C/C++

[–] ScreaminOctopus 1 points 1 year ago

Thats because in government products many unsafe languages shittier than C(++) are used, like Ada, Fortran, and Cobol. It wouldn't surprise me if most of the code running on products for government use werent written in C or C++

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