Full programmer control and preventing bugs, security holes and so on are not fundamentally opposed. It's not like most programmers go to work trying to make su

Full programmer control and preventing bugs, security holes and so on are not fundamentally opposed. It's not like most programmers go to work trying to make sure their software has a certain number of buffer overflows in it. It just turns out that preventing that in C is really, really hard. To take the car analogy further, whether your car is manual or automatic, seat belts and airbags are valuable. Neither of them compromises a driver's full control of their car.