> "modern" as a value seems pretty loose, and it's often at least arguable whether it's objectively better! Well, there is research on this! https://security.

> "modern" as a value seems pretty loose, and it's often at least arguable whether it's objectively better! Well, there is research on this! https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s... writes: > vulnerabilities decay exponentially. They have a half-life. [...] A large-scale study of vulnerability lifetimes² published in 2022 in Usenix Security confirmed this phenomenon. Researchers found that the vast majority of vulnerabilities reside in new or recently modified code Where ² goes to https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/alexopoulos https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentat... A study limitation is that they looked only at security-relevant bugs (vulnerabilities). As someone who writes code, I would tend to think that this also goes for bugs without a direct security impact, but I don't have the data to back that notion up