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.

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Such as? (Non-programmer here, so I don’t know the ins and outs of programming languages.)

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Zig and Rust come to mind, at least for replacements for low level languages.

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Zig isn’t memory-safe

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My bad, I was thinking of Nim but wrote Zig for some reason. Long day yesterday 🙃

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C#

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Isn’t that only microsoft exclusive and closed source? Also does compiling it really yield the same speed as C, it is garbage collected isn’t it?

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Was always possible to compile+run C# on Linux using the Mono project. Until Microsoft “bought them out” and created .NET Core, a cross platform version of .NET that MS now encourages people to use instead…

Microsoft’s new linux compile tools rub me the wrong way slightly, with the telemetry that’s opt-in by default.

Mono is still extremely valuable for older .NET Framework apps under WINE though, way easier to setup compared to the official installers from what i’ve experienced.

No idea how compiled C# compares to C…

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*proceeds to wrap everything in unsafe {}

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Rust is the main one for the kind of code that’s typically written in C++. Most memory-safe languages make big compromises on performance, but Rust code tends to run about as fast as comparable C++ code.

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