White House urges developers to dump C and C++

2 years ago by MarcoPOLO to c/worldnews

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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ScreaminOctopus 27 points 2 years ago

Pretty crazy to reccomend Java as a secure alternative.

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u_tamtam 8 points 2 years ago

Why? What's wrong with safe, managed and fast languages?

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zik 14 points 2 years ago

Java's runtime has had a large number of CVEs in the last few years, so that's probably a decent reason to be concerned.

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DampCanary 7 points 2 years ago

Nothing...

Only that descrition doesn't include Java

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ScreaminOctopus 3 points 2 years ago

Nothing really, the JVM has a pretty troubled history that would really make me hesitate to call it "safe". It was originally built before anyone gave much thought to security and that fact plauges it to the present day.

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dukatos 1 point 2 years ago

Written in C++

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