[paulf38]

I agree that C is a basket case when it comes to safety and security.

The CPU and the hardware don’t care how confident C coders are in their ability.

C developers tend to forget the reason why Windows and UNIX like systems are now quite robust is that there has been over 50 years of turd polishing. Unfortunately for rust it is not immune to bugs other than memory safety issues. I think that it is a good idea to write new code in rust. Less so for battle hardened old code.

C++ is somewhere between C and rust. With modern ‘good practices’ (no raw pointers, no for loops) it can be an order of magnitude or two safer than C.