[copsarebastards]

I don't think it's the language's fault either: C is four decades old, and being bound by reverse-compatibility, they can't integrate much of the programming language research that has happened in the last four decades. I'm a less concerned with placing fault for the problem than I am with placing the responsibility for fixing the problem, and that's clearly on the writer of the program which uses undefined behavior.

I think choosing Rust might be a reasonable way to avoid the problem in the first place, so I agree with you there, but there are also reasons to choose C over Rust. Personally, I write a lot of C code because I prefer to build on a GPL stack. This is one of the reasons I'd like to see Rust added as a GCC language. Sadly I don't have the time to do it myself.