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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] 3 points 8 months ago

sad stroustroup noises

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm like absolutely convinced Rust is the shit!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (10 children)

C is not the problem, it's sloppy "programmers" who cannot handle direct memory control and who do not understand the underlying system architecture and how a microprocessor operates. People who are good at writing C can make code just as safe as the safest Rust code.

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