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The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 days ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Got it. I agree that their drivers are (were?) of exemplary bad quality

But I don't think that it is realistically possible to drop all the proprietary firmware blobs, and if it's not maybe it's better to not actively sabotage something to 'avoid those being feasible'?

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Firmware don't link to the kernel tho, and the kernel functions aren't stable so a firmware today would stop working tomorrow because a function was refactored(and all the code in the kernel that depend on that function) for performance or security, and the binary can't be refactored so it become useless