Buffer overflow is not a bug, its the consequence of a bug. Unsafe languages don't inherently have more bugs, they have more dangerous consequences of bugs. If

Buffer overflow is not a bug, its the consequence of a bug. Unsafe languages don't inherently have more bugs, they have more dangerous consequences of bugs. If you want to reduce the consequences, there are a number of things you can do. If you want to reduce the number of bugs, you should look at what the cause of the bug is, not the consequence. C is a small language about moving stuff around memory with pointers, so the consequences of bugs are commonly going to be a wrong read/write. That fact says very little about what the mistakes actually are.