<p>Mark Russinovich, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, has said that developers must stop writing codes in programming languages C and C++ and the industry should treat these computer languages as "deprecated".</p>.<p>The developers should rather write codes in "Rust," a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language licensed by MIT and Apache 2.0 (dual-licensed), due to security and reliability concerns in C and C++ languages.</p>.<p>"Rust" is now being used within the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) at Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, reports ZDNet.</p>.<p>"Speaking of languages, it's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ and use Rust for those scenarios where a non-garbage-collected (GC) language is required. For the sake of security and reliability. the industry should declare those languages as deprecated," Russinovich said in a tweet.</p>.<p>Microsoft recently said that 70 per cent of its security patches in the last 12 years were fixed for memory safety bugs "due largely to Windows being written mostly in C and C++".</p>.<p>Google Chrome also said that 70 per cent of all serious security vulnerabilities in the Chrome codebase were memory management and safety bugs written mostly in C++.</p>.<p>"There is an enormous amount of C/C++ that will be maintained and evolve for decades (or longer). That said, I'll bias towards Rust for new tools," Russinovich further said.</p>.<p>Rust is a promising replacement for C and C++, particularly for systems-level programming, infrastructure projects, embedded software development and more.</p>.<p>C++ is a general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language.</p>.<p>The language expanded significantly over time, and modern C++ now has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.</p>.<p>Several companies provide C++ compilers, including the Free Software Foundation, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, and IBM.</p>.<p>For 84 per cent professionals in the country, machine learning (ML) followed by statistics are the two most in-demand skills that recruiters are looking for in data science professionals, a report said recently.</p>.<p>Python remained the most used programming language across all sectors, according to the report by Great Learning, a BYJU's group company.</p>
<p>Mark Russinovich, the chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, has said that developers must stop writing codes in programming languages C and C++ and the industry should treat these computer languages as "deprecated".</p>.<p>The developers should rather write codes in "Rust," a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language licensed by MIT and Apache 2.0 (dual-licensed), due to security and reliability concerns in C and C++ languages.</p>.<p>"Rust" is now being used within the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) at Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft, reports ZDNet.</p>.<p>"Speaking of languages, it's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ and use Rust for those scenarios where a non-garbage-collected (GC) language is required. For the sake of security and reliability. the industry should declare those languages as deprecated," Russinovich said in a tweet.</p>.<p>Microsoft recently said that 70 per cent of its security patches in the last 12 years were fixed for memory safety bugs "due largely to Windows being written mostly in C and C++".</p>.<p>Google Chrome also said that 70 per cent of all serious security vulnerabilities in the Chrome codebase were memory management and safety bugs written mostly in C++.</p>.<p>"There is an enormous amount of C/C++ that will be maintained and evolve for decades (or longer). That said, I'll bias towards Rust for new tools," Russinovich further said.</p>.<p>Rust is a promising replacement for C and C++, particularly for systems-level programming, infrastructure projects, embedded software development and more.</p>.<p>C++ is a general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language.</p>.<p>The language expanded significantly over time, and modern C++ now has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.</p>.<p>Several companies provide C++ compilers, including the Free Software Foundation, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, and IBM.</p>.<p>For 84 per cent professionals in the country, machine learning (ML) followed by statistics are the two most in-demand skills that recruiters are looking for in data science professionals, a report said recently.</p>.<p>Python remained the most used programming language across all sectors, according to the report by Great Learning, a BYJU's group company.</p>