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3) It's not "safe languages", it's "memory safe languages". The whole point is to make very common security vulnerabilities due to unsafe memory usage much less

3) It's not "safe languages", it's "memory safe languages". The whole point is to make very common security vulnerabilities due to unsafe memory usage much less common. Rust and garbage-collected languages have memory safety. C/C++ do not. That's the whole point.

FpUser 7y ago
C/C++ have enough tools to detect and get rid of memory leaks. Quite frankly memory safety ceased being a practical problem to me years ago.
- timw4mail 7y ago
  That assertion would carry much more weight if not for the constant barrage of security vulnerabilities due to memory issues.