> Obviously, the pain of severe software defects is not yet high enough to warrant switching to memory-safe systems programming languages. The decision to rewr

> Obviously, the pain of severe software defects is not yet high enough to warrant switching to memory-safe systems programming languages. The decision to rewrite in a memory-safe language would create a lot of work for the developers, the decision to stick to unsafe languages creates a lot of work for the people handling security incidents. These aren't necessarily the same people, in the open source world you usually have dedicated teams that are having trouble keeping up with the number of severe software defects discovered every other day.