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.

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I’ll say it. C is a bad language. There was a time when it needed needed to exist and using it was a smart choice, but it has outlived its usefulness for anything but legacy code and niche use cases like FFI. It’s in essentially the same category as Cobol.

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The bad language that all successor languages copied?

Edit: spell.

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It wasn’t bad at the time relative to what else was around.

And I don’t even know what you’re getting at by saying “all” successor languages copied it. Are you referring to how many languages use curly braces as block delimiters? Because that’s not what’s wrong with C.

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Did you mean predecessor, like the languages that came before it?

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Fuck I meant successor

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