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

submitted 8 months ago by MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also like it’s the only source of vulnerabilities… in addition a lot of the trendy python libs are developed in C; do we also ditch those?

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is one of the main sources. Like, actually a very substantial fraction is memory related. I think It was more than 50%, granted those are estimates.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Microsoft and Google both claim around 70%.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues/