The idea that people who create security flaws in C are "morons" is contrary to all the evidence. In fact, the biggest security problems are usually caused by t

The idea that people who create security flaws in C are "morons" is contrary to all the evidence. In fact, the biggest security problems are usually caused by the best programmers. That's because they write the code that people actually use a lot. To be concrete: libpng, libjpeg, FreeType, etc. are not written by "morons". Can you write a JPEG decoder faster than libjpeg-turbo?