🔐 C++ Must Become Safer — Andrew Lilley Brinker — Software Supply Chain Security

｢ If a cheap-to-maintain legacy system is faced with the proposition of an expensive rewrite, it may instead be eliminated. The externalities of this kind of change are difficult to consider in advance and in general ｣

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#C #CPP #Rust #MemorySafety #Infosec

C++ Must Become Safer — Andrew Lilley Brinker — Software Supply Chain Security

I work on software supply chain security at MITRE, including serving as amember of the OmniBOR Working Group, where I lead development of the Rustimplementation, and as the project manager for Hipcheck, a tool forautomated supply chain risk assessmen…

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Hey #gnome and #kde people, since you are at #fosdem could you maybe discuss what would it take to make a common toolkit (Linux toolkit?) that would appeal to both #c and #cpp devs? Basically covering both platforms so we could converge. Maybe #swiftlang? Fork of #Kotlin native? Seems to me we would be better off with people writing mobile apps for Linux desktop, than people writing web apps and electron garbage on desktop.

Fully aware of xkcd.com/927/

Standards

^xkcd

"Safety vs Performance. A case study of C, C++ and Rust sort implementations."

#cpp #rust #c #programming

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Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration

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#cplusplus #cpp #gtk #gtkmm #inkscape

🦀 "Why the Rust Community Should Be Worried About the New Carbon Language"

👉 should we?

👉 If we some language can do what Rust can do but more simpler, we should be happy to switch but is that the case here?

Article:
towardsdev.com/why-the-rust-co…

#rustlang #rust #cpp #carbon

C++ template parlor tricks: Using a type before it is defined

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Discussions: discu.eu/q/devblogs.microsoft.…

#cpp #programming

C++ template parlor tricks: Using a type before it is defined - The Old New Thing

You can talk about hypothetical things, hoping that a real thing shows up later.

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We're looking for a #c / #cpp or #rust #freelance developer! It's mostly about Linux namespaces, PAM modules, and patches in 3rd-party software. Low volume. Take a look, mail us, or spread the word!

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Boosts very welcome! #rustlang #jobad #job

Freelance-Softwareentwicklerin, C/C++/Rust (d/w/m)

This job posting is written in German. However, we all speak English here. Feel free to apply even if you don't know German. Translating this post is left as an exercise to the applicant.

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I'm experimenting with the #libreoffice SDK to write a small #nextcloud app. I'm using the #cpp API because I want to wrap it in an #Rust #HTTP backend.

It is hard to figure out how to use the API and questions on Stackoverflow are hard to align with the #libreoffice examples. For example, stackoverflow.com/q/62769483 does not really help. I guess you need to be familiar with the API before you will understand it.

@libreoffice, do you have any pointers to become more comfortable with the API?

Libreoffice API (UNO): need to change user's xTextField text

Is there any proper way to change text in the user's created xTextField using C++ UNO? These fields names are com.sun.star.text.fieldmaster.User.[FIELD NAME] I tried this before, but it didn't help:

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