You may have noticed that all the examples neither used the ampersand & when referencing functions, nor the asterisk * when dereferencing pointers to execute their underlying functions.

The report suggests the industry could gain data on the companies that are hiring people who know memory-safe languages, and those who require C/C++, by inspecting a software bill of materials (SBOM).

Percentage of memory safety issues has been hovering at 70 percent for the past 12 years.