While C by itself is not safe, I would argue that no sane development environment uses C by itself. Over the decades of its production use dozens of tools have

While C by itself is not safe, I would argue that no sane development environment uses C by itself. Over the decades of its production use dozens of tools have been developed that make it far safer: *grind suite, coverage tools, sanitizers, static analyzers, code formatters and so on. Those tools are external, otherwise they would make C slower. Something for something.