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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 5 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 5 months ago (12 children)

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

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (7 children)
[–] Asifall@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

*proceeds to wrap everything in unsafe {}

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