> The thing is, C also makes me aware of what is happening, by letting programs fail when I forget about certain things. Not necessarily. Many C programming er

> The thing is, C also makes me aware of what is happening, by letting programs fail when I forget about certain things. Not necessarily. Many C programming errors invoke Undefined Behaviour, and then "appearing to work correctly" is a permissible option. So you will miss the programming error, until a change seemingly unrelated to that part of the system will trigger some segfaults or wrong results, or allow a determined attacker to use your program to launch calc.exe.