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Re:Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk by jandrewrogers on Friday November 01, 2024 @12:05AM (#42013969)
No, you can still use C++ for the foreseeable future for applications that require it. They are saying don’t use C++ in contexts that clearly don’t need it.

There are some important applications in US DoD where Rust is not a viable replacement for C++. You’d need to broadly disable memory-safety and the performance is still worse. C++ isn’t going anywhere for those applications because it offers material advantages over Rust. And to be frank, this kind of software rarely has memory safety issues generally; the kinds of things that lead to memory unsafety are the kinds of things that also produce poor code on unrelated metrics.

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