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.
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.
You mean like android running java which is why everyone and their mom bought Israel’s Pegasus spyware toolkit?
When was the last time you’ve heard of a memory safety issue in Java code? Not the runtime or some native library, raw dogged Java.
Memory safety isn’t a silver bullet, but it practically erases an entire category of bugs.
Fair point, even log4j was running java code, not literally hijacking the stack or heap.
That being said, I’m poking fun because C and C++ have low level capabilities of which only Rust offers a complete alternative of. Most of everything else is safe because it comes packaged with a garbage collector which affects performance and viability. I think Go technically counts if you set the GC allocation to 0 and use pointers for everything, but might as well use Rust or C at that point.
I guess I’m just complaining out of all the issues ONCD could point out, they went after the very broad “memeory-safe is always better” when most of the people using C and C++ need the performance. They only offered Rust as a potential alternative in the report with nothing else which everyone already knows. Would be nice to see them make a real statement like telling megacorps to stop using unencrypted SCADA on the internet.
The apps are (sometimes) Java, but the OS is a mix of languages, mostly C and C++. The Java runtime itself is C++.
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.
Java also made it very accessible to the vast majority of existing Java developers.
Way more Java developers than Objective C developers at the time.
I wasn’t a fan of learning Objective C when I started learning just as swift was coming out but too new to use.