Subj : US White House urges devs to dump C and C++
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Feb 29 2024 07:27 pm

  Re: US White House urges devs to dump C and C++
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Thu Feb 29 2024 01:43 pm

 DM> There is no single programming language that is the best tool for
 DM> everything. For systems programming (OS kernels, device drivers,
 DM> firmware), C and C++ are still tools of primary choice (though Rust is
 DM> making some inroads here). But if I were to develop just about anything
 DM> else that lives, privacy/security, or business operations depended upon,
 DM> I'd use a managed language/environment.

I suppose it would make sense to use a managed language/environment.
In some of the newer C++ standards, they've introduced some classes that are meant to help manage memory better for you though, suchas shared_ptr, unique_ptr, etc..  I've heard people say you can avoid using new & delete (or malloc() and free()) and use those managed pointers instead.  I think another issue can be buffer overruns though, and I don't recall offhand if a managed language normally protects against that.  In a quick Google search, I found a page where someone said buffer overflow exploits are possible in C#, though it's harder to produce them in C#.

Nightfox
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