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Are these organizations only specifying "memory safe languages" or are they specifying specific languages?
by PopGreene 2y ago
Are these organizations only specifying "memory safe languages" or are they specifying specific languages?
- ports543u 2y agoMany require new projects to be written in memory safe languages. But what constitutes a memory safe language is blurry. For example, this is what the NSA says: https://readwrite.com/the-nsa-list-of-memory-safe-programming-languages-has-been-updated/ https://readwrite.com/the-nsa-list-of-memory-safe-programmin... Note the "suggests".
- Someone 2y ago> Note the "suggests". That’s what readwrite.com says. I think what the NSA says (or said; that is dated April 2023) is here: https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI_SOFTWARE_MEMORY_SAFETY.PDF https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI... I couldn’t find the word “suggest” or anything similar to it in that paper. They describe what they mean by “memory safety” and give examples of memoryxsafe languages (twice, both times the same list)