Re: "White House to Developers: Using C or C++ Invites Cybersecurity Risks"

On 06/03/2024 04:43, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 5/3/2024 9:51 pm, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 3/3/2024 7:13 am, Lynn McGuire wrote:

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"The Biden administration backs a switch to more memory-safe programming
languages. The tech industry sees their point, but it won't be easy."
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No.  The feddies want to regulate software development very much.  They
have been talking about it for at least 20 years now.  This is a very
bad thing.

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A responsible, good progreammer or a better C/C++ pre-processor can
avoid a lot of problems!!

 Or maybe A.I.-assisted code analyzer?? But there are still blind spots...

I think AI could be used and give goods result but it is not ideal.
The advantage of AI it could understand patterns. Like the names init and destroy could work as tips or patterns.
However, I think programming needs a formal language for contracts and the static analysis needs to check them.
Also ideally is better contracts for the interface rather having to see the body of the functions.