Biden Admin Wants Software Companies to Move Away From C and C++ Languages

Published on February 29, 2024

The Biden administration is calling on software developers to ditch C and C++, two of the oldest surviving and most prominent programming languages, in favor of alternatives that have inherent memory-safety features. Software companies “can prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities from entering the digital ecosystem” by embracing programming languages that don’t have memory-safety issues hostile foreign powers and criminal hackers are exploiting, the White House said. Memory-safe programming languages are protected from security bugs related to how memory can be accessed, allocated, or rewritten in unintended ways. For example, an out-of-bounds reads bug could allow an attacker to read from adjacent blocks in memory that may contain private data, while a use-after-free bug could give the attacker access to information in memory that was already deleted....

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