C is a dangerous beast, but with good practices it isn't that dangerous. Of course you have to be extra careful when dealing with user content, like JSON payloa

C is a dangerous beast, but with good practices it isn't that dangerous. Of course you have to be extra careful when dealing with user content, like JSON payload, but many decoders in other languages are written in C. It isn't hard to build tools like Valgrind and AFL into your C workflow. I would take that over simply taking for granted that a higher-level language was secure just because it is interpreted. After all it's probably C under the hood anyway.