White House urges developers to dump C and C++::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.

  • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    they’re just using the word in an implicitly narrow context.

    I think we mostly agree, but disagree on this point. I think it’s just that most people haven’t given it any thought. Like they are just ignorantly going along with the popular opinion.

    • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      I suppose mob mentality is likely to play some part in every widely shared view.

      At the very least, I can guarantee that one of said people has given it thought. :)