alt Hacker NewsThere have also been repeated statements from NSA & CISA that they recommend all development should be done in memory safe languages.
It's abundantly clear that there is a strong headwind towards memory safety, whether that's Rust or GC'd languages.
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jandrewrogers • yesterday at 8:46 PM
The recommendation is qualified for typical apps that do not have extreme performance or scale requirements. They use Java for many, many things.
C++ is still indicated for systems that are optimizing for performance and scalability characteristics, since it intrinsically requires a lot of "unsafe" constructs.
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A headwind makes it harder to advance in the direction you're going. I think you might have meant to say "there is a strong tailwind towards memory safety".