The US military agency responsible for developing new technologies plans to embark on an effort to rewrite significant volumes of C code by funding a new research challenge to create an automated ...

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of ...

Mark Russinovich, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, says developers should avoid using C or C++ programming languages in new projects and instead use Rust because of security and ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code from remote code execution or other ...

CISA Report Finds Most Open-Source Projects Contain Memory-Unsafe Code Your email has been sent Analysts found that 52% of open-source projects are written in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++.

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust. Many software projects emerge because—somewhere out there—a programmer had a personal problem to solve. That’s more or ...

Zig is a popular systems-oriented language that is serious about replacing C. Here's what you need to know about Zig. The Zig programming language continues its gradual advance into the world of ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...