White House urges developers to dump C and C++ | InfoWorld
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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.
  • davel [he/him]11•4 months ago

    Lemmy’s Rust devs have activated their Manchurian candidate.

  • KnilAdlez [none/use name]9•4 months ago

    Recent studies from Microsoft and Google have found that about 70 percent of all security vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety issues.

    Huh interesting, I wonder what they suggest people use then

    an NSA cybersecurity information sheet from November 2022 listed C#, Go, Java, Ruby, and Swift, in addition to Rust, as programming languages it considers to be memory-safe.

    How interesting.

    In all seriousness, there is a real discussion to have about this, but the answer isn't just "Stop using C".