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

submitted 11 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] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

and how much of this troubled history is linked to Java Applets/native browsers extensions, and how much of it is relevant today?