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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)
submitted 8 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

C/C++: so bad that even the white house takes notice ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

C isn't bad. It has been a good portable assembly language for ages, and remains so today. What's problematic is continuing to use it where more advanced languages now make more sense.

I won't defend C++, though. I'm happy to kick it to the curb now that better alternatives are gaining traction.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The problem with C++ is not the lack of safety features. It's the ever lasting backwards compatibility that is keeping it both alive and down at the same time.

Having to support 50 year old code, is going to limit any restriction you place. But it is usually the restrictions that make a language good.

Example: You can write perfectly good modern C++ code without any pointers. But pointers are so ingrained into the language, that it is impossible to remove them.