[1ris]

To reuse your metaphor:

If professional chefs would constantly maim themself and each other despite extensive occupancy safety training, knives have no place in the hands of a responsible professional.

Using C is the SE equivalent of taping down one button of the two-hand control device of a die cutter.

[optymizer]

That's a strawman if I've ever seen one. What's the "extensive occupancy safety training" for C?

[1ris]

Kernel hackers are considered the most skilled people in the whole profession. The Linux kernel is one of the most read source code on the planet. The code is audited to death. Much of the research into static code analysis starts there. They have tools available most other people don't. That's what i mean.

If, what ever the happens there, is not up to your standard of professionalism, maybe your standard is unrealistic?