A program that segfaults at the wrong moment can ruin your day. It is a tradeoff. It boils down that bad memory handling produces bad results. In C++ these are

A program that segfaults at the wrong moment can ruin your day. It is a tradeoff. It boils down that bad memory handling produces bad results. In C++ these are memory leaks or dereferencing invalid pointers, in GC languages, you pay with performance impacts. And, very occasionally one technology is completely unsuited for a given task. But that should not lead to such blanket statements.