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In some cases, we want freedom... and that's something that has been neglected a bit too much with new programming languages IMHO. Safety/security feels like it's the latest of the dumbing-down "let's treat programmers like idiots" fad.

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I think the approach of languages like Rust, which enforce strict safety by default, but allow "unsafe" regions of code, is the correct way to go.

See http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/rust.html#unsafety

Or if you have any sense of history, languages like Modula-2/2+/3. (And undoubtedly a few (dozen?) others I'm unaware of.)

Nothing new in software development. All the "new" shinies are decades (!) old.

Somehow young developers seem to think only C and C++ offer native features.

I wonder how we got sidetracked like that.

I submit as evidence 99.44% of software that has been released that programmers are, in fact, idiots.

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