PRESS RELEASE: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe | ONCD | The White House
www.whitehouse.gov
Leaders in Industry Support White House Call to Address Root Cause of Many of the Worst Cyber Attacks Read the full report here WASHINGTON – Today, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface in cyberspace. ONCD makes the…

On the one side I really like c and c++ because they’re fun and have great performance; they don’t feel like your fighting the language and let me feel sort of creative in the way I do things(compared with something like Rust or Swift).

On the other hand, when weighing one’s feelings against the common good, I guess it’s not really a contest. Plus I suspect a lot of my annoyance with languages like rust stems from not being as familiar with the paradigm. What do you all think?

  • Lmaydev@programming.dev
    301·
    9 months ago

    They mean a trade off in the resulting application. Compile times mean nothing to the end user.

    • Dave.@aussie.zone
      143·
      9 months ago

      That may be true but if the language is tough to develop with, then those users won’t get a product made with that language, they’ll get a product made with whatever language is easier / more expedient for the developer. Developer time is money, after all.

      • Lmaydev@programming.dev
        3·
        9 months ago

        You’d be better just using a managed languages in many cases.

        With tiered jit and careful use of garbage allocations they can actually be the same or faster.