Yes, I was imagining something like this for the "too new" alternative. In 2005 you did already have safer, capable, mature systems programming languages avail

Yes, I was imagining something like this for the "too new" alternative. In 2005 you did already have safer, capable, mature systems programming languages available, eg Ocaml, but for cultural reasons they were not often used in SV. And people were less educated about building secure software (goes double for enterprise security products).