SECURE BY DESIGN: GOOGLE’S PERSPECTIVE ON MEMORY SAFETY

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Google has published a whitepaper that outlines its "Secure by Design" approach, which advocates for the adoption of languages like Java, Go, and Rust to achieve high-assurance memory safety. Google has a massive C++ codebase. It will gradually adopt memory-safe languages for new code while seeking safety improvements for existing C++.