Tag: coding practices
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Hacker News: The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/safe_c_plusplus/ Source: Hacker News Title: The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The C++ community has proposed the Safe C++ Extensions to enhance memory safety in the language, responding to increasing pressure from public and private sectors for more secure coding…
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The Register: Google’s memory safety plan includes rehab for unsafe languages
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/google_legacy_code/ Source: The Register Title: Google’s memory safety plan includes rehab for unsafe languages Feedly Summary: Large C and C++ codebases will be around for the ‘foreseeable future’ Google has revealed that its approach to making programming code more memory safe involves both the adoption of memory safe languages and making unsafe languages…
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The Register: Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/open_source_maintainers_underpaid/ Source: The Register Title: Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray Feedly Summary: AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot’s work The majority of open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work, spend three times as much time on security than they did three years…
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Slashdot: Two Android Engineers Explain How They Extended Rust In Android’s Firmware
Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/09/08/0455238/two-android-engineers-explain-how-they-extended-rust-in-androids-firmware?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Two Android Engineers Explain How They Extended Rust In Android’s Firmware Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google is enhancing the security of its Android Virtualization Framework by rewriting firmware using the Rust programming language, which is known for its memory safety features. The move aims to…
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Slashdot: Linus Torvalds Talks About Rust Adoption and AI
Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/08/25/0256228/linus-torvalds-talks-about-rust-adoption-and-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Linus Torvalds Talks About Rust Adoption and AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The discussion at The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit highlights key developments and challenges in Linux development, particularly regarding real-time projects, the adoption of Rust, and the impact of AI on coding practices.…