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.

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.

  • ScreaminOctopusEnglish
    281·
    9 months ago

    Pretty crazy to reccomend Java as a secure alternative.

      • zik@lemmy.world
        14·
        9 months 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
          52·
          9 months 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

      • ScreaminOctopusEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Nothing really, the JVM has a pretty troubled history that would really make me hesitate to call it “safe”. It was originally built before anyone gave much thought to security and that fact plauges it to the present day.

        • u_tamtam@programming.dev
          2·
          9 months ago

          and how much of this troubled history is linked to Java Applets/native browsers extensions, and how much of it is relevant today?

        • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 months ago

          There’s a difference between writing code on a well-tested and broadly used platform implemented in C++ vs. writing new C++.