I think this argument gets sillier every year, and passed the silliness event horizon probably at least a decade ago. Taking what the article says for convenien

I think this argument gets sillier every year, and passed the silliness event horizon probably at least a decade ago. Taking what the article says for convenience, memory safety prevents "buffer overflows, use after free, and use after return". My question is, what are you doing that actually depends on those things? Why would you consider them features? There is of course a small handful of answers like accessing memory-mapped buffers for hardware access, but these are fractional percentage exceptions, not things to bend your language choice around. They're fractional percentage exceptions even in programs where that's the primary use case; you're still better off using an "unsafe" function to do your little bit of magic, then using the memory safety everywhere else. And... it's not like C is a nice language. By modern standards, C is just terrible. Unpleasant. Poor affordances that lead to bad designs, where you end up giving up on the right answer because it's just so darned hard so let's just take some shortcuts. Spikes everywhere you walk, knives everywhere you touch. Missing basic features to any modern language like closures, and if you do bash them in they come with so many caveats that they're hardly recognizable. If you are still someone who learned C 30 years ago and still think it's just somehow incomparably amazing and nothing can compare, please, spend some time with a couple of other system languages long enough to come to fluency, then re-evaluate. All the other languages have been polishing for decades now, and they've straight-up passed C for all language-related purposes. Yea verily these ~25 years ago when I started in this industry there were still cases to be made that C or the C++ of the time was still necessary to get the performance you needed, but those days have passed. The only remaining place I can understand using it are those fringes where it's just the only choice, and even then, the newer languages are marching along and if I were stuck in those industries I'd be trying to get on board as quickly as possible.