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

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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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[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Leeker@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

What are you talking about? Did you read the report? On page 7 They directly say that C/C++ "lack traits associated with memory safety".

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