Barking Up Wrong Tree
Even expert software engineers will create severe bugs then and now. The evidence in the CVE database is very clear. The cost and security threats from these bugs can no longer be ignored. Memory Safe languages are a very important safety/security approach along with firewalls, MMUs, sandboxing, strict input parsers and so on.
The latest novel C exploit reports are about medical devices running VxWorks. They had an exploitable bug in the TCP stack, which means the device could be commandeered by simply sending "bad" IP packets to the device.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
