Undoubtedly, the issue of memory safety while remaining performant is a game-changer, but the word need is a bit strong here...
When 52% of curl's security vulnerabilities were due to it being written in C (mostly buffer overreads/overwrites), I say "need" is indeed adequate.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/03/09/half-of-curls-vulnera...
When 52% of curl's security vulnerabilities were due to it being written in C (mostly buffer overreads/overwrites), I say "need" is indeed adequate.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/03/09/half-of-curls-vulnera...