"sort of" is the key. If the language doesn't prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot, on any large project bad things will happen. Safer languages are

"sort of" is the key. If the language doesn't prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot, on any large project bad things will happen. Safer languages are better tools because they make obvious when you're stepping out of the safe zone, which is not the case with C++, even modern releases.