• WasPentalive@lemmy.one
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    8 months ago

    Wow, Programming advice from non-programmers (And I would say this no matter which side of the aisle the President is from) and those with a vested interest. (google, Microsoft) The Linux kernel is written in C, will it be shut out of government contracts?

    • Cagi@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Non-programmers? You think Biden personally made this up without consulting a single computer scientist or programmer or something?

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      8 months ago

      Well, after fighting an endless parade of memory corruption vulnerabilities for the last 35 years, maybe it is time for a change.

      The advice may be coming from the white house but it seems like a better direction to go in than metaphorically continuing to point loaded guns at our feet.

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      8 months ago

      Support for Rust in Linux is gaining a lot of traction. Memory safety without performance hits is massive for kernel development.

      Google and Microsoft are massively invested in Linux and some of its biggest contributors due to the cloud.

      Windows and android are also written in memory unsafe languages so I don’t see how this would help them.