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Developers Should Use Memory-Safe Languages, Report Says
More projects are gradually adopting Rust for codebases written in C and C++ to make code more memory safe.
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Developers across government and industry should commit to using memory-safe languages for new products and tools, and identify the most critical libraries and packages to shift to memory safe languages, according to a study from Consumer Reports.
The U.S. nonprofit asked what steps can be taken to help usher in "memory-safe" languages, like Rust, over options such as C and C++. It identified "memory unsafety" as and industry-wide threat "that cannot be solved through user behavior or even consumer choice."
The report, Future of Memory Safety, looks at range of issues, including challenges in building memory-safe language adoption within universities, levels of distrust for memory-safe languages, introducing memory-safe languages to code bases written in other languages, and also incentives and public accountability.
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