The strong reason is given in the linked article. C is better supported, more stable, has more developers, and is better understood. Meanwhile many of these bug

The strong reason is given in the linked article. C is better supported, more stable, has more developers, and is better understood. Meanwhile many of these bugs could be caught by testing, which you should be doing anyway. You can also survive the effects of the bugs with other tools like stackguard with extremely low overhead, while still having the vast benefits of C described in the original article.