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

submitted 8 months ago by SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish@programming.dev to c/c_lang@programming.dev

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[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 8 months ago

That'll save us. Anything in there about not assigning a public IP to your cofee maker?

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Wow, Programming advice from non-programmers (And I would say this no matter which side of the aisle the President is from) and those with a vested interest. (google, Microsoft) The Linux kernel is written in C, will it be shut out of government contracts?

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

Non-programmers? You think Biden personally made this up without consulting a single computer scientist or programmer or something?

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Well, after fighting an endless parade of memory corruption vulnerabilities for the last 35 years, maybe it is time for a change.

The advice may be coming from the white house but it seems like a better direction to go in than metaphorically continuing to point loaded guns at our feet.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Support for Rust in Linux is gaining a lot of traction. Memory safety without performance hits is massive for kernel development.

Google and Microsoft are massively invested in Linux and some of its biggest contributors due to the cloud.

Windows and android are also written in memory unsafe languages so I don't see how this would help them.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

The new 19-page report from ONCD gave C and C++ as two examples of programming languages...

I'm just astounded that, not only did the article avoid using the obnoxious term "C/C++", but it explicitly refers to them as two separate languages.