World News

32258 readers

583 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

Please only post links to actual news sources, no tabloid sites, etc
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

182

White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Written in C++

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

There's a difference between writing code on a well-tested and broadly used platform implemented in C++ vs. writing new C++.