[jnurmine]

But but but... every day, many people use implementations written in C to reliably store data. Just look at, say, Linux. The drivers, filesystems and networking stack are all written in C (and maybe some assembler). And once the data reaches the firmware controllers of the mass storage device... Well, the firmware is done in C or assembler.

It is not like implementing a rather thin layer for reliable data storage on the userspace in language x somehow invalidates the contribution of the C language, which the underlying system, all the way from the OS to the device firmware is likely written with.

That said, I do understand the arguments of e.g. Rust being superior in preventing memory bugs, and so on, but whatever gets implemented on the userspace is simply not the whole story regarding reliable data storage. Without system services no data will get replicated, distributed, stored and so on...