>We live in a C world and I don't see that changing any time soon. Of course it won't because every time an out-of-bounds array access gives attackers free rei

>We live in a C world and I don't see that changing any time soon. Of course it won't because every time an out-of-bounds array access gives attackers free reign of a system and some one says "hey guys this whole C thing is clearly blatantly terrible" every one else says "Not this crap again. C libraries are not pretty but they have been out there for decades, they have been reviewed and used in production." As if the libraries have been utterly static for decades and aren't infact full of holes and bugs, which is exactly what brings on the call to rewrite things in Ada/Rust/SML/Lisp Then they always say "There is no silver bullet, just because you use Rust it doesn't mean your programs will be completely safe." As if there's no reason trying to improve things unless you can jump directly to perfect. they make excuses like "A lot of these C libraries were written in more innocent times where a small bug would not affect as many people as it would today." as if we still lived in those innocent times. And then they inevitably wave the call to action off by appealing to the status quo with some line like "We live in a C world and I don't see that changing any time soon." and so even though there's no reason we couldn't start re-writing things (especially in Unix an OS that constantly brags about being built from loosely coupled parts) in a better language we never get a critical mass together.