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The number of memory safety CVEs written in C by people who ostensibly 'didn't need training wheels' point strongly to the antithesis of your argument.

And I say that as someone who's been a kernel engineer for 20 years.

Nah, people ignore on purpose that C creators are the first to acknowledge C's flaws, hence why Alef, Limbo and Go were created by them, and Plan 9/Inferno as improvements on UNIX.

Too many focus on where the journey started instead of where it ended.

There are only people who think they can write safe C code and those who know they can’t.

Including the language authors, let that sink in.

Yeah, it’s very much like the meme showing the bell curve with the novice and the wizard/expert both saying “I can’t write safe C code” and the guy in the middle bragging that he can.