The White House Wants Memory-Safe Programming, but What Is That?
Quick Links A US government agency has decreed that programmers should favor memory-safe languages like Rust and Java. But why are they better and does this really matter? What Is the White House Saying? In a statement on 26 February, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged software developers to adopt memory-safe programming languages, like Rust. The ONCD said: We, as a nation, have the ability – and the responsibility – to reduce the attack surface in cyberspace and prevent entire classes of security bugs from entering the digital ecosystem but that means we need to tackle the hard problem of moving to memory safe programming languages....