Submission + - White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (infoworld.com)
Tontoman writes: According to an article from InfoWorld, now the United States White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) is urging adoption of Rust to "reduce the risk of cyberattacks by using programming languages that don’t have memory safety vulnerabilities"
The article continues: "The new 19-page report from ONCD gave C and C++ as two examples of programming languages with memory safety vulnerabilities, and it named Rust as an example of a programming language it considers safe. In addition, an NSA cybersecurity information sheet from November 2022 listed C#, Go, Java, Ruby, and Swift, in addition to Rust, as programming languages it considers to be memory-safe."
The article continues: "The new 19-page report from ONCD gave C and C++ as two examples of programming languages with memory safety vulnerabilities, and it named Rust as an example of a programming language it considers safe. In addition, an NSA cybersecurity information sheet from November 2022 listed C#, Go, Java, Ruby, and Swift, in addition to Rust, as programming languages it considers to be memory-safe."
