[dbrgn]

Here's a recent USENIX talk on the topic of memory unsafety and the choice of programming languages: https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2021/presentation/ga...

Slides can be downloaded. I hope the talk recording will be available as well.

[otabdeveloper4]

> memory unsafety

Memory unsafety is just one class of safety bugs, and a relatively unimportant one.

As far as payment processors go, I'd be much more worried about concurrency bugs.

[adwn]

> Memory unsafety is just one class of safety bugs, and a relatively unimportant one.

Wrong. Memory unsafety, in its various forms, is the primary source of exploits in software written in C.

> I'd be much more worried about concurrency bugs

Another thing which is hard to do in C, and so much easier in some more modern programming languages (particularly in Rust).