My real gripe with C is that it was designed to be insecure ON PURPOSE, and many people in the OSS world hold the religious view that this is a good thing. C's

My real gripe with C is that it was designed to be insecure ON PURPOSE, and many people in the OSS world hold the religious view that this is a good thing. C's primary design goal that overrode everything else was easy implementation. In order to keep a dumb compiler, the preprocessor was used instead of a proper module system. For the same reasons, the standard library is full of non-reentrant functions relying on global state, unbounded string manipulation functions or bounded string functions with ambiguous off-by-one properties, vaguely defined data types and so on. If there's one reason to do away with C, is to do away with all the stubborn programmers who clutch their copy of K&R and think everything must be done in the "C way". To paraphrase Linus' on C: you'd want to avoid C just to avoid this type of C programmers. They could be amazing coders, but not if you care about security (and you should).