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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)

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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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[-] u_tamtam@programming.dev 5 points 1 year 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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