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I've benefitted from modern "safe" languages.

I cut my teeth on things like Machine Code, ASM, and ANSI C.

I don't miss them, at all.

Nowadays, I write primarily in Swift, and I absolutely love not testing for leaks, anymore.

How does this support your original position? Now you're saying you want the guardrails, I don't get the point you're trying to make.

I think he's happily retired.

I enjoy the non safe parts and proving with code in production for decades it works... it is sort of like code golf.

however I use everytrick I tan to get memory safety when possible.