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The NSA advises move to memory-safe languages (www.nsa.gov)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

C#, Go, Java, Python, Rust, and Swift

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

so basically anything without manual memory management. I don't really see a good point in shilling particular names aside from discussions on performance impact of GC vs VM vs ownership

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Not really manual memory management. I'd say C++'s memory management is automatic, just not safe.

Yes, a lot of programming languages are memory safe, maybe it would be faster to list memory unsafe popular languages.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Sorry, are you saying the NSA's information sheet shouldn't have mentioned specific languages? Why not?