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Languages compared on vulnerability

Accepted submission by hendrikboom mailto:hendrik@topoi.pooq.com at 2020-12-23 14:57:06 from the Department of linguistic quarrels. dept.
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Veracode has compared programming languages [zdnet.com] for incidence of vulnerabilities by collecting statistics on 130,000 applications they have scanned.

Programming language security: These are the worst bugs for each top language

C++ and PHP have far more high-severity security flaws than programming languages like JavaScript and Python.

Let the language wars resume.

-- hendrik


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