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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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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think we should politicize code. It seems so unfettered by politics so far while so many other things are nicely split amongst party lines. Seems like maybe the Republicans should embrace C and the democrats can have python or something.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Republicans get C, Java, Lua, and C++; Democrats get Ada, Rust, C#, and Python; Libertarians get Zig, TCL, Julia, and Ocaml for some reason.

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

    Ruby is just one guy, Vermin Supreme

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

    I thought this is a tech space, but you've just made a lot of people Republicans.

    One would also expect Ada to be Republican.

    And can libertarians please have Common Lisp?

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

    Ada could never be republican, on the basis that it's named after a british woman scientist. I don't think she's on record as a feminist, but that's about the only thing that would make her "worse" in their eyes

    Also why do the democrats only get languages for people who don't care about performances ? /s ^(it's just a prank bro)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I was thinking about the association of the Ada language with defense stuff, and also her being Byron's daughter, which is more specific than being British, I'm not sure she'd complain about associations with Republicanism, but then this can also be interpreted in favor of libertarians.

    No, the question is valid about weird selection of languages for Democrats. I think what they meant is that separation of various issues between parties is orthogonal to any sane logic, so we should do this with programming languages too.

    Also I want to know who gets Erlang.

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