Snyk’s FossID Buy to Boost C Compliance for Embedded Devs

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Their unmet needs were on the mind of Snyk founder Guy Podjarnyannouncing the acquisition of FossID, a provider of open source compliance solutions. C++ is the preferred programming language of 40% of all developers that work on embedded applications per the aforementioned SlashData study. Podjarny believes C/C++ developers have unmet needs and cites a 2020 C++ community survey in which the major point for these developers is managing libraries their applications depends on.

According to the same study, only 51% of C++ use the cloud in their software development lifecycle.

FossID addresses a second issue that C++ developers appear to care more about than others — code snippets.

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