▲ 223 ▼ White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com) submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 79 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) But it also doesn't have memory leaks lol permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent