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Most certainly opening the door to a diffetent kind of bugs. This mentally of tying bugs to a language demonstrates a very poor understanding of the issues themselves, and if anything a large impacting bug demonstrates wide adoption of an individual piece, most probably choosen due to its stability or ease of use.

Remember heartbleed?...

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> Most certainly opening the door to a diffetent kind of bugs.

No? There's no law of conservation of bug class or something, you can eliminate bug classes without introducing a new one.

> This mentally of tying bugs to a language demonstrates a very poor understanding of the issues themselves,

No it doesn't.

> and if anything a large impacting bug demonstrates wide adoption of an individual piece, most probably choosen due to its stability or ease of use.

I don't think this has held true historically, and log4j is a good example of this (though there are many others).

> Remember heartbleed?...

A weird point to bring up since heartbleed was an out of bounds memory read.

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