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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.

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[-] zik@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Java's runtime has had a large number of CVEs in the last few years, so that's probably a decent reason to be concerned.

[-] u_tamtam@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Yep but:

  • it's one runtime, so patching a CVE patches it for all programs (vs patching each and every program individually)

  • graalvm is taking care of enabling java to run on java

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