Developers looking to continue working in the C and C++ programming languages amid the global push to promote memory-safe programming now have another option that doesn't involve learning Rust. Filip Pizlo, senior director of language engineering at Epic Games, has created his own memory-safe flavor of C and – because why not …

The C language is still prominent in the industrial embedded world, where “IoT” often refers to platforms much more limited than a Raspberry Pi. Often having to deal with such environments, we wrote the following informal explainer about C for internal company needs, and thought it could be of interest for more readers. This is basic material, mixing C and operating systems knowledge, aimed at readers with no or limited understanding of how you go from C source code to an executable. We could expand on many points, but for now we just share this meandering overview.

At the North America edition of the 2018
Linux Security Summit (LSS NA), which was held in late August in Vancouver,
Canada, Kees Cook gave a presentation on some of the dangers that come with
programs written in C. In particular, of course, the Linux kernel is
mostly written in C, which means that the security of our systems rests on
a somewhat dangerous foundation. But there are things that can be done to
help firm things up by "Making C Less Dangerous" as the title
of his talk suggested.

At the North America edition of the 2018
Linux Security Summit (LSS NA), which was held in late August in Vancouver,
Canada, Kees Cook gave a presentation on some of the dangers that come with
programs written in C. In particular, of course, the Linux kernel is
mostly written in C, which means that the security of our systems rests on
a somewhat dangerous foundation. But there are things that can be done to
help firm things up by "Making C Less Dangerous" as the title
of his talk suggested.