I think the biggest difference is bounds checking. If you write off the end of your array in Java, you get an exception. In C, you get a CVE. Other things like

I think the biggest difference is bounds checking. If you write off the end of your array in Java, you get an exception. In C, you get a CVE. Other things like manual memory management and fiddly string types don't help, but simple bounds checks would catch so many things.