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

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 28 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Probably a good idea, plenty of languages out there that can give good performance while being memory safe nowadays.

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 7 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Such as? (Non-programmer here, so I don't know the ins and outs of programming languages.)

[–] 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.

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