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.

  • 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.