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  • US White House urges devs to dump C and C++

    From Nightfox@eric.oulashin@gmail.com to All on Wed Feb 28 14:28:55 2024
  • From esc@46:1/111 to Nightfox on Thu Feb 29 05:21:43 2024
    https://www.infoworld.com/article/3713203/white-house-urges-developers-to- c-and-c.html

    As someone that's stumbled into the pitfalls of neglecting appropriate memory management in my own c code, I gotta say this feels like a good recommendation.

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  • From Bob Worm@46:20/111 to esc on Thu Feb 29 20:00:43 2024
    Re: Re: US White House urges devs to dump C and C++
    By: esc to Nightfox on Thu Feb 29 2024 05:21:43

    As someone that's stumbled into the pitfalls of neglecting appropriate memory management in my own c code, I gotta say this feels like a good recommendation.

    Most of the stuff I do in BASIC is poorly thought out pointer based peril... Luckily(?) on the Acorn where I do most of that there's no memory protection so you're acutely aware of your errors thanks to having to reboot after encountering each one :)

    BobW
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  • From Nightfox to esc on Fri Mar 1 12:25:07 2024
    Re: Re: US White House urges devs to dump C and C++
    By: esc to Nightfox on Thu Feb 29 2024 05:21 am

    https://www.infoworld.com/article/3713203/white-house-urges-developers-to
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    c-and-c.html

    As someone that's stumbled into the pitfalls of neglecting appropriate memory management in my own c code, I gotta say this feels like a good recommendation.

    I feel like switching entirely to a different programming language could be a bit excessive.. Though it can be easy to forget/neglect that sometimes.

    If you're using C++, modern C++ has some things that can help (smart pointers such as shared_ptr, unique_ptr, etc)..

    Nightfox