I saw this article today:
https://shorturl.at/KMZ07


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

Nightfox

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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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 :)

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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