In this Help Net Security interview, Omkhar Arasaratnam, General Manager at the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), discusses the evolution of memory-safe programming languages and their emergence in response to the limitations of languages like C and C++. Memory safety concerns, prevailing for over five decades, involve abstracting programmers from memory management tasks. Modern languages like Java, Rust, Python, and JavaScript alleviate these concerns by handling memory management on behalf of the programmer, thereby allowing … More →

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