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

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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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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Compiled C# is about half the speed of C/C++

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/box-plot-summary-charts.html

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[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

But it also doesn't have memory leaks lol

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 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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[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago

True that, I'm only at the beginning of my programming journey, so I have a very rough understanding of the differences, pros/cons, and best use cases for various languages.

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