[otabdeveloper1]

> ...we're going to massively regret letting type safety and other features slide.

PHP is memory safe, and yet is a larger source of data breaches and security bugs than C by (rough guess) an order of magnitude.

C is not the bogeyman you're looking for.

[ComputerGuru]

PHP may be memory safe but the shitload of poorly written C extensions enabled by default on all hosts that shipped with the distribution from 1995 to 2010 sure as hell weren't.

[otabdeveloper1]

C extensions wasn't the part of PHP that broke the amateur Internet, SQL injections were.