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The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

To address this concern, CISA recommends that developers transition to memory-safe programming languages such as Rust, Java, C#, Go, Python, and Swift.

If only it were that easy to snap your fingers and magically transform your code base from C to Rust.

guy_butterfly_meme.jpg is this unbiased journalism?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

As the article is denoted as a comment, it is not its aim to be unbiased journalism.

In contrast to usual articles, comments usually elaborate on the opinion of the jounalist.

[–] FizzyOrange 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know why you're being downvoted. It literally starts with the word OPINION in bold red caps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My mind was making one transfer to much, as the opinion clip in German TV news is called comment. There were no additional downvotes after I added the second sentence for clarification.