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

submitted 6 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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[-] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago

I love that Android chose Java so they could run it on different processor architectures, but in the end one architecture won out so Java wasn't necessary any more. I guess they didn't know at the time, but they'd claw back a tonne of efficiency if they dropped the Java VM.