Unfortunately there are a lot of scenarios where C/C++ are still the only practical choices. No other language even comes close to their ubiquity AND performanc

Unfortunately there are a lot of scenarios where C/C++ are still the only practical choices. No other language even comes close to their ubiquity AND performance at the same time. I'm sure the day will come though. And there are those working on mitigating some of the worst issues with those languages, maybe someday they will bear practical fruit as well. https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc