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.

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.

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Damn, it’s been like 25 years since I touched either of those. Aside from OS development, do people really do that anymore?

    • Subverb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Embedded systems developer here. If you’re programming on ARM or one of the other big microcontrollers there aren’t many well supported options. ARM’s official Keil compiler and libraries are C and C++ and I see no official movement to change that.

      They have literally decades in building those tools.

      Microsoft’s multithreaded OS ThreadX is C code. They just bought it for a large undisclosed amount in 2018. It ain’t going anywhere soon.

      AWS’s FreeRTOS is C. Not going anywhere.

      Embedded development toolchains are very slow to change.

    • flatpandisk@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      A large chunk of not most of robotic development is C and C++. Since working with a mixture of hardware, software, and even performance software here comes C and C++.