• eveninghere@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    In February, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged technology companies to adopt memory-safe programming languages like Rust.

    My comment is somewhat unfair, but WH is not the right body to make this kind of recommendation.

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      3 months ago

      Why not? I mean they are right. Adopting memory safe languages is a good step forward, because it would eliminate bunch of mistakes before they happen. And the White House does not recommend Rust only, but a memory-safe language, something like Rust or something different. I wish my government would do the same.