The paper notes the NSA's recent recommendation for organizations to "consider making a strategic shift from programming languages that provide little or no inherent memory protection, such as C ...

Comparing the open-source models only, PolyCoder performs better than the similarly sized GPT-Neo 2.7B in C, JavaScript, Rust, Scala and TypeScript," the researchers note.

The vaunted C++ programming language, which overtook Java last month in the monthly Tiobe Index of language popularity, was the index’s biggest gainer in 2022, Tiobe announced this week.