White House urges developers to avoid C and C++, use memory-safe' programming languages

C++ is not a memory-safe language, and we're no longer being forced to use it.

2024-3-2

Memory safety refers to protection from bugs and vulnerabilities which deal with memory access. Buffer overflows and dangling pointers are examples of this. Java is considered a memory-safe language due to its runtime error detection checks. However, C and C++ both allow arbitrary pointer arithmetic with direct memory addresses and no bounds checking.

NSA Suggested Memory-Safe Programming Languages

• Rust
• Go
• C#
• Java
• Swift
• JavaScript
• Ruby
• Python
• Delphi/Object Pascal
• Ada