The whole fallacy with articles like this is that they all too often show why a language is unsuited for some subset of tasks and then proclaim "death to $LANGU

The whole fallacy with articles like this is that they all too often show why a language is unsuited for some subset of tasks and then proclaim "death to $LANGUAGE." There's a time and place for C, and while writing a web framework is probably not that place, I think for embedded C is going to be around for a while. Sometimes you need to do things that could potentially cause problems (like every single pointer dereference) because there are deadlines for things to happen. If DMA had to check whether the place it's about to write the next 4 sample from the ADC is ok every single time, you might very well miss it