"NSA advises organizations to consider making a strategic shift from programming languages that provide little or no inherent memory protection, such as C/C++, to a memory safe language when possible.

Google and Microsoft are major users of and contributors to the fast programming language ... uses C++ smart pointers like MiraclePtr, which also caused a performance hit, as well as static ...

Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming ... using a compiled language like C++ with the speed of a dynamic language like Python.