"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.

Why is it such a common solution for memory allocation errors? We’ll start with the perils of memory management in languages like C and C++, which do not use garbage collection.

The C-language extension compiler includes memory-safe pointers along with new safety features not found in C or C++.

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