Subj : US White House urges devs to dump C and C++
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Feb 28 2024 09:50 pm

  Re: US White House urges devs to dump C and C++
  By: Nightfox to Ogg on Wed Feb 28 2024 08:31 pm

 >   Re: US White House urges devs to dump C and C++
 >   By: Ogg to Nightfox on Wed Feb 28 2024 07:06 pm
 >
 >  N>> I saw this article today:
 >  N>> https://shorturl.at/KMZ07
 >
 >  Og> Is the WH a good source for programming advice?   :|
 >
 > I was thinking that as well..  I wonder if they talked to anyone before
 > suggesting developers drop C and C++.

I don't doubt it. Managed languages have been big in security and enterprise app development, anywhere performance or hardware-access isn't the paramount priority, for a long time now. It's not to say that you can't have vulnerabilites in managed software (they happen all the time), they're just a different class of vulnerabilities that are generally easier to find and defend against or fix than the memory issues that plague C and C++ code bases.

It's honestly not bad advice for most projects (e.g. I don't think Apple accepts apps written in C or C++ in its app store). But keep in mind, Rust supports writing memory-unsafe code too. It's default mode is memory-safe, but it's still subvertable. So Rust might not be the cure-all they think it is.
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