>we now have close to half a century of evidence that no human currently living can use C safely How many operating systems are written in C ? How many of the m

>we now have close to half a century of evidence that no human currently living can use C safely How many operating systems are written in C ? How many of the more mainstream operating systems are written in other languages ? You're right that C is the wrong tool for a lot of applications. But if you need total control and speed and power it still works for many projects.