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

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] 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] 21 points 8 months ago (5 children)

You mean like android running java which is why everyone and their mom bought Israel's Pegasus spyware toolkit?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love that Android chose Java so they could run it on different processor architectures, but in the end one architecture won out so Java wasn't necessary any more. I guess they didn't know at the time, but they'd claw back a tonne of efficiency if they dropped the Java VM.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Java also made it very accessible to the vast majority of existing Java developers.

Way more Java developers than Objective C developers at the time.

I wasn't a fan of learning Objective C when I started learning just as swift was coming out but too new to use.

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