> Much current C code is somewhat safe-ish because of Herculean efforts to not screw it up. Came here to post this but you beat me to it. We have reasonably s

> Much current C code is somewhat safe-ish because of Herculean efforts to not screw it up. Came here to post this but you beat me to it. We have reasonably safe C/C++ code in some places because of a combination of a huge amount of extra effort to be careful plus years of prior bug fixing and rewriting of that code to use safer practices.