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That bug was a programmers' bug.

No language would have prevented it to happen.

And even if it was a memory safety bug, that would have been a programmers' bug.

C has no issues with memory as it let's programmers do what they want.

Arguably, most domains should not allow programmers do whatever they want. Cryptography and security are very high on that list.

Let’s leave C for demoscene and the Underhanded C Contest and more critical areas let’s adopt tools that reject more error-prone code.