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

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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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[-] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 74 points 6 months ago

Skill issue

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 88 points 6 months ago

I think that’s the point. You can’t trust the average developer to do things safely. And remember, half of all programmers are even worse than average.

[-] Darkrai@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Which half am I in?

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

If you have to ask

[-] tim-clark@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

You know

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago

Yes. And 75% of car driver believe they are above average as well...

[-] tim-clark@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago

99% of devs believe they are in the top 1%

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