The answer to the first question is „literal billions in damages“ and the answer to the second one is „seemingly yes“. Library / application maintainers and pro

The answer to the first question is „literal billions in damages“ and the answer to the second one is „seemingly yes“. Library / application maintainers and product companies rarely pay the cost if yet another memory safety issue leads to a new 0day. Perhaps changing that would finally turn people off of C/C++