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C++ creator rebuts White House warning

Biden administration seems oblivious of the strengths of contemporary C++ and the efforts to provide strong safety guarantees, Bjarne Stroustrup said.

The White House in a report released February 26 called on developers to reduce the risk of cyber attacks by using programming languages that do not have memory safety vulnerabilities. A November 2022 cybersecurity information sheet from the US National Security Agency (NSA) cited C#, Go, Java, Python, and Rust as languages considered to be memory-safe. Profiles, Stroustrup said, “is a framework that allows us to incrementally improve guarantees—e.g., to eliminate most range errors relatively soon—and to gradually introduce guarantees into large code bases through local static analysis and minimal run-time checks.

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