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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 27 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Pretty crazy to reccomend Java as a secure alternative.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] DampCanary 7 points 10 months ago

Nothing...

Only that descrition doesn't include Java

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