Web browsers are one of the most poorly designed applications in existence. It's not surprising that such complex applications trying to do everything possible

Web browsers are one of the most poorly designed applications in existence. It's not surprising that such complex applications trying to do everything possible have vulnerabilities. But in no way that should serve as a benchmark for C as being inherently unsafe when far more important systems like databases, operating systems, system libraries are written in c just fine. Most of the common vulnerabilities in general are due to unnecessary complexity of systems that lend themselves to poor programming practices, configuration errors, low calibre programmers, etc (OWASP list for example). Memory safety vulnerabilities tend to just get more attention since they are in critical parts of a system, hard to exploit and so attracts highly sophisticated exploits that affect us at a nation state or industry level. If these systems were written in high languages by those high level developers, I'd go nowhere near any computer system.