[abysmallyideal]

haha, that safety stuff is just training wheels. You can't delegate security. Even if you use some baby-proof "programming language", as a security engineer you still have to verify that the safety works in the condition(s) you're programming for.

[pjmlp]

Ahah, I was doing systems programming in Pascal dialects and Modula-2 before having to know C was a requirement.

Of course one always has to validate security, but with C each line of executable line of code is a possibility exploit, which grows exponentially with the amount of developer touching the code and their respective skills and UB knowledge.