CISA and the FBI released a Product Security Bad Practices Report asserting C, C++, and other languages cause potential security breaches.

But – as experts have noted in debates over Rust and C/C++ – the NSA warns that simply using a memory safe language doesn't by default preclude introducing memory bugs to software.

The creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, is defending the venerable programming language after the US National Security Agency (NSA) recently recommended against using it.