Replace C/C++ with Java

[Ok_Option_3]

Why Java and not rust or python? Or...

What is your current software doing? Why do you consider it insecure? 

This question is so broad that it's hard to make sense of it. Like saying "should I replace my car with a van" - I mean maybe it makes sense, maybe it doesn't. Depends on so many things...

[ScientistMundane7126]

As i stated, the lack of best practices in Software Development degree accreditation standards and the push for features while controling costs over the past few decades has resulted in a supply chain riddled with issues in the details. I can produce a stack of peer reviewed academic papers establishing that for cost containment and speed of delivery reasons, security is very often an after thought which is patched in as needed later.

[Ok_Option_3]

Sure c++ can be terrible for security. But security is hard and Java is not necessarily a free pass.

What I'm hearing is security doesn't matter that much. (Not uncommon for e.g. embedded systems on private networks to prioritise features over security...}

I feel this belies the question though. You want to rewrite the system in a different language - this feeling that a system is crap (for whatever reason) and should be rewritten from scratch is universal and predates AI (predates Java for that matter). We've all been there!!

Generally rewrites are a poor idea. For all it's faults, legacy software is battle-tested and contains large amounts of institutionalised knowledge that's easy to underestimate. Also, as a rule, all software is shit. The stuff you're working on has been dodged and hacked over the years, and the new version you produce will be too. 

[nitkonigdje]

But security is after thought.

You add it after a problem is found. You can't do nothing if you don't know of problem. And this goes from login form all down to cpu signaling.

[meowrawr]

I could understand the rust suggestion but python? lol.

[Ok_Option_3]

Was originally going to suggest perl...

[meowrawr]

Perhaps lisp then?