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.

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.

    • zik@lemmy.world
      14·
      9 months ago

      Java’s runtime has had a large number of CVEs in the last few years, so that’s probably a decent reason to be concerned.

      • u_tamtam@programming.dev
        52·
        9 months ago

        Yep but:

        • it’s one runtime, so patching a CVE patches it for all programs (vs patching each and every program individually)

        • graalvm is taking care of enabling java to run on java

    • ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Nothing really, the JVM has a pretty troubled history that would really make me hesitate to call it “safe”. It was originally built before anyone gave much thought to security and that fact plauges it to the present day.

      • u_tamtam@programming.dev
        2·
        9 months ago

        and how much of this troubled history is linked to Java Applets/native browsers extensions, and how much of it is relevant today?

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        There’s a difference between writing code on a well-tested and broadly used platform implemented in C++ vs. writing new C++.