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.

  • hagelslagerEnglish
    70·
    8 months ago

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

    • benEnglish
      120·
      8 months ago

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

      • parensEnglish
        20·
        8 months ago

        Zig isn’t memory-safe

        • benEnglish
          60·
          8 months ago

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

      • scharf_2x40English
        81·
        8 months ago8 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
          90·
          8 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…

            • JakeroxsEnglish
              10·
              8 months ago

              But it also doesn’t have memory leaks lol

              • sunbeam60English
                20·
                8 months ago

                Definitely. I’ve worked professionally in both. They both have a time and place. I’d be fine with moving all the low level stuff to Rust, but transitions don’t happen by decree so C/C++ will be around for the next 100 years too.

                • JakeroxsEnglish
                  10·
                  8 months ago

                  True that, I’m only at the beginning of my programming journey, so I have a very rough understanding of the differences, pros/cons, and best use cases for various languages.

      • AsifallEnglish
        30·
        8 months ago

        *proceeds to wrap everything in unsafe {}

    • lolcatnipEnglish
      20·
      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.