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Just to make sure this was something you were considering when I internet your comment.

You know that the two examples you referenced are from 9 and then 16 years ago right? Is this an increasing problem or one from a previous age of software?

This is a legit question. I work with managed languages for web development. I’ve only looked at c/c++/assembly in high school classes

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Low level languages might not be used in many applications these days, but it is still very much the core of OS's, drivers, embedded, etc. Those things are still being made today, and the impact of a security flaw sneaks in is probably bigger than a flaw in application code.

C++ is still widely used for applications in some industries (games, finance), although this is less true than it was a decade ago

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