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.

    • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I think that’s the point. You can’t trust the average developer to do things safely. And remember, half of all programmers are even worse than average.

        • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          The word “average“ can mean many things, for example, mean, median, mode, or even things like “within 1 standard deviation from the mean”.

          I was using it strictly as the mean which divides the population exactly in half.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    You mean like android running java which is why everyone and their mom bought Israel’s Pegasus spyware toolkit?

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      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.