People get blinded by features. At the end of the day, what influence your ability to write safe code is the human brain. You have to be able to reason about an

People get blinded by features. At the end of the day, what influence your ability to write safe code is the human brain. You have to be able to reason about and understand the code effectively to discover and fix problems. Ironically C++ by adding a ton of features to make the language “safer” basically achieves the opposite. Complexity obscures how your code works and thus aids in hiding critical bugs. I have had so many cases with obscure bugs the 15 years I used C++ that simply would be impossible to reproduce in C. Does it mean I advocate C for safer coding? Not at all, but I think the advantage of C++ is grossly overstated. Languages such as Go are better examples for writing safe code. Why? Because they quite strong type safety and good memory semantics while not adding too high complexity to the language. Everything is far more explicit than in C++ which has too much “magic” and implicit behavior.