[AlotOfReading]

This is my view as well, from the same industry. However, the quality of the tools available in C to deal with its issues far exceed those in any other language. I would love to drop C from all my systems, but the alternatives simply aren't there.

[pjmlp]

The alternatives were there before UNIX took over server room and workstation market.

Just imagine how many millions the IT industry and PhD research have spent developing solutions that would improve C's safety, many of them largely ignored by most C developers.