White House urges devs to switch to memory-safe programming languages

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director urges a transition to memory-safe programming languages (such as Rust) to curb long-standing memory safety vulnerabilities, building on the National Cybersecurity Strategy and guidance from NSA and CISA. Citing Microsoft’s finding that roughly 70% of vulnerabilities stem from memory safety issues and Google’s research showing significant reductions when using memory-safe languages, the report calls on engineers to make architectural and design choices that reduce the attack surface and strengthen national cybersecurity.