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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Pretty crazy to reccomend Java as a secure alternative.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

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

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

Written in C++

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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

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