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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Probably a good idea, plenty of languages out there that can give good performance while being memory safe nowadays.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Such as? (Non-programmer here, so I don't know the ins and outs of programming languages.)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Zig and Rust come to mind, at least for replacements for low level languages.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    C#

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Isn't that only microsoft exclusive and closed source? Also does compiling it really yield the same speed as C, it is garbage collected isn't it?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Was always possible to compile+run C# on Linux using the Mono project. Until Microsoft "bought them out" and created .NET Core, a cross platform version of .NET that MS now encourages people to use instead...

    Microsoft's new linux compile tools rub me the wrong way slightly, with the telemetry that's opt-in by default.

    Mono is still extremely valuable for older .NET Framework apps under WINE though, way easier to setup compared to the official installers from what i've experienced.

    No idea how compiled C# compares to C...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    But it also doesn't have memory leaks lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Definitely. I’ve worked professionally in both. They both have a time and place. I’d be fine with moving all the low level stuff to Rust, but transitions don’t happen by decree so C/C++ will be around for the next 100 years too.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Rust is the main one for the kind of code that's typically written in C++. Most memory-safe languages make big compromises on performance, but Rust code tends to run about as fast as comparable C++ code.

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