Developers across government and industry should commit to using memory ... systems. C++ is still way more widely used than Rust, but both are popular languages for systems programming.

If a program has a memory management issue that can be trapped at compile time, it simply won’t compile. Newcomers to the language—especially coming from a language like C, which provides ...

Meanwhile, the predecessor language C, which is still widely used today ... any memory-safety bugs into their code. A program's memory is a shared resource used by all of its features and libraries.

The ONCD points out that C and C++ are very popular programming languages used in critical systems but are not memory safe. Rust is a memory-safe programming language, but it has not been proven ...