[wat10000]

Most of the world uses other languages because they’re easier, not because they’re safer.

[gpm]

They're easier because, amongst other improvements, they are safer.

[wat10000]

Sure, my point is the safety is not why they originally supplanted C and C++. It was seen largely as a tradeoff between ease of development and runtime performance. Memory safety as a goal of its own didn’t become prominent until much later.