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

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] refalo -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IIRC They were also trying to get kernel devs to let official structure definitions live in Rust instead of C, and got upset when they didn't want to do that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

the rust devs wanted to CREATE official structure definitions that don’t exist in C so that there was more semantic meaning to the APIs