[pshc]

That is a decent anecdote. Well, with respect, allow me to revise and qualify my read of @baggy_trough's comment:

It's perfectly fine to continue using an existing C codebase for a program, not exposed to the public internet, that's maintained by a focused group of maintainers. But on the other side of this spectrum, for large exposed projects like OpenSSL, Chromium, or even Linux, C/C++ has become risky.