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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 11 months ago (13 children)

I’m not sure what to think about this. It’s bizarre, the White House making any recommendations on programming languages.

They’re definitely not seen as an authority in this field. Why would anyone care what recommendation they make? And so why make one at all?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s a national security threat

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

C/C++ is a threat to mental stability

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