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by array_key_first 261 days ago
> The issue Mozilla faced wasn't that it wasn't safer than C. It's that it was not safe enough for their needs.

I would agree with this for most use cases. My main qualm is lumping together C and C++.

It's like lumping together Rust and JS, because they're both memory safe. But Rust is WAY more safe. JS is, overall, an extremely footgunny language.

In my view, the jump from C to C++ is about the same as the jump from Rust to JS, potentially even bigger.