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White House urges developers to use memory safe programming languages to limit cybersecurity risk.
The White House says memory safety bugs are “one of the most pervasive classes of vulnerabilities.” But, coding with memory safe languages “can eliminate most memory safety errors.”
That means the White House is urging coders against using languages like C and C++. And when a complete rewrite of code isn’t feasible, it suggests prioritizing the most critical functions.
Back to the Building Blocks: A Path Toward Secure and Measurable Software
[www.whitehouse.gov]
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