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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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[-] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 12 points 8 months ago

Zig and Rust come to mind, at least for replacements for low level languages.

[-] parens@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Zig isn't memory-safe

[-] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

My bad, I was thinking of Nim but wrote Zig for some reason. Long day yesterday 🙃

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