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by Jtsummers 1065 days ago
It should tell you that Linux is not a "paragon of reliability" unless you have a non-standard definition of paragon and/or reliability.
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And that many of Linux's severe vulnerabilities were facilitated by C/gcc:

"The net result is that a PL/I programmer would have to work very hard to program a buffer overflow error, while a C programmer has to work very hard to avoid programming a buffer overflow error."

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf