I think that manu of C issues come from the APIs rather than the language. You could do safe memory management by only using refcounts in the api and sticking t

I think that manu of C issues come from the APIs rather than the language. You could do safe memory management by only using refcounts in the api and sticking to it. You could have bound checking in the strings library. But strings are 0 ended (more an API design since strings are not in C). Not saying that its bad design because it allows >256 length strings with only one byte of overhead. But it is a compromise that made sense but has its drawbacks. There are a few stdlib complements in C (strlcpy, antirez sds lib for strings) but it's a shame a more modern lib/runtime has not been established as a standard while keeping C strengths. Or maybe I'm ignorant.