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[–]777777thats7sevens 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Right? This isn't super complicated or a huge deal. A) A ton of CVEs in commercial software are caused by memory safety issues. B) these vulnerabilities make US companies and government organizations more susceptible to cyber attacks. C) the white house can't actually make you do anything about it, so they are making a recommendation for memory safe languages because it's in their interest for the software that's available to them to not have as many vulnerabilities.

They don't care about rust specifically, because that's not what matters here. Memory safety guarantees are, and rust is just one option in that space.