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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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I think that’s the point. You can’t trust the average developer to do things safely. And remember, half of all programmers are even worse than average.
Wouldn’t that be the median programmer instead of average?
The word “average“ can mean many things, for example, mean, median, mode, or even things like “within 1 standard deviation from the mean”.
I was using it strictly as the mean which divides the population exactly in half.
Yea! I’m one of them!
Half of all programmers constitute the so called “average” group
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Bell curves don’t work to make this point. A bell curve is symmetrical, so half of developers will always be below average on a bell curve. But yes, it is true that for other types of distributions, more or less than half of the developers could be below average. What the person above you was looking for, in the general case, would be the median.
The mean is in the center of the bell curve, so I’m not sure what your point is.
Guys, C++ is gonna be dead in a couple of years now. Remember this comment…
…and read it again in ten years.
Are you the guy who has been posting this same comment every 10 years over the last half century?
(Edit: is joke)
Pretty crazy to reccomend Java as a secure alternative.
You mean like android running java which is why everyone and their mom bought Israel’s Pegasus spyware toolkit?
The apps are (sometimes) Java, but the OS is a mix of languages, mostly C and C++. The Java runtime itself is C++.
Is that nottheonion?
As you wish. Time to start learning D and D++
Hey girl, would you like my D or D++?
Rewrite it in Rust
Also like it’s the only source of vulnerabilities… in addition a lot of the trendy python libs are developed in C; do we also ditch those?
It is one of the main sources. Like, actually a very substantial fraction is memory related. I think It was more than 50%, granted those are estimates.
Microsoft and Google both claim around 70%.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues/
Meanwhile the report does not really single out C/C++
What are you talking about? Did you read the report? On page 7 They directly say that C/C++ “lack traits associated with memory safety”.
Thats because in government products many unsafe languages shittier than C(++) are used, like Ada, Fortran, and Cobol. It wouldn’t surprise me if most of the code running on products for government use werent written in C or C++
When all the talented programmers are all gay communists and your entire state exists to murder gay communists. Still can’t forget how Allen Turing, a gay man whose inventions were a gigantic help in winning WW2, KYS’d because they still treated him like garbage even after the fact.
That’s probably a good idea but I can see some proper longevity issues in that one
Shut up Brandon, you can’t even code. This is just propaganda from Big Rust.
I wanted you to know that I laughed and enjoyed this comment, ignore the haters 💛
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