Coding language + libs + gui suggested to ensure secure strings for password manager [migrated]

I decided to code my own password manager. There are similar posts to this, but with less specific (or not fully covered) answers/requests.
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SheepShaver: A Cross-Platform Tool For Retro Enthusiasts

The world of desktop computing has coalesced into what is essentially a duopoly, with Windows machines making up the bulk of the market share and Apple carving out a dedicated …read more Continue reading SheepShaver: A Cross-Platform Tool For Retro Enthusiasts

The Pareto Botnet – Advanced Cross-Platform Android Malware Using Amazon AWS Spotted in the Wild – An Analysis – A PDF Paper

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Should You Build for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, or Linux? Yes!

The holy grail of computer languages is to write code once and have it deploy effortlessly everywhere. Java likes to take credit for the idea, but UCSD P-Code was way before that and you could argue that mainframes had I/O abstraction like Fortran unit numbers even earlier. More modern efforts …read more

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Why did "terminal commands" never get a version of SQL "parameterized queries"?

I was taught horrible bad practice when I initially "learned" SQL, which baked in user-submitted input with quotes and attempted to "escape" this (in the beginning, I didn’t even escape it at all…). I then had to spen… Continue reading Why did "terminal commands" never get a version of SQL "parameterized queries"?

Write Once, Run Everywhere: Cross-Platform Programming Done Right

One of the goals of programming languages back in the 1950s was to create a way to write assembly language concepts in an abstract, high-level manner. This would allow the same code to be used across the wildly different system architectures of that era and subsequent decades, requiring only a …read more

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