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

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Java's runtime has had a large number of CVEs in the last few years, so that's probably a decent reason to be concerned.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yep but:

it's one runtime, so patching a CVE patches it for all programs (vs patching each and every program individually)
graalvm is taking care of enabling java to run on java