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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)
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White House urges developers to dump C and C++::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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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 8 months ago

Rust is the main one for the kind of code that's typically written in C++. Most memory-safe languages make big compromises on performance, but Rust code tends to run about as fast as comparable C++ code.