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.

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•10 months ago

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

    • benEnglish
      12•10 months ago

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

      • @scharf_2x40English
        7•10 months ago

        Isn’t that only microsoft exclusive and closed source? Also does compiling it really yield the same speed as C, it is garbage collected isn’t it?

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
          9•10 months ago

          Was always possible to compile+run C# on Linux using the Mono project. Until Microsoft “bought them out” and created .NET Core, a cross platform version of .NET that MS now encourages people to use instead…

          Microsoft’s new linux compile tools rub me the wrong way slightly, with the telemetry that’s opt-in by default.

          Mono is still extremely valuable for older .NET Framework apps under WINE though, way easier to setup compared to the official installers from what i’ve experienced.

          No idea how compiled C# compares to C…

      • @AsifallEnglish
        3•10 months ago

        *proceeds to wrap everything in unsafe {}

    • @[email protected]English
      2•10 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.