Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance urging software developers to adopt memory-safe programming languages.
“The importance of memory safety cannot be overstated,” the inter-agency report [PDF] says.
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