[selfmodruntime]

The answer to the first question is „literal billions in damages“ and the answer to the second one is „seemingly yes“. Library / application maintainers and product companies rarely pay the cost if yet another memory safety issue leads to a new 0day.

Perhaps changing that would finally turn people off of C/C++

[pjmlp]

Yes, when we aren't happy with physical goods there are laws and liabilities to take into account, same should apply to software products.