This is inflammatory and vapid. OpenSSL just needs better code review and should follow the standards they are programming to. It's not the death knell for an entire programming language.
True, though hopefully it will make people thing that, no matter how smart the programmers working on a project of a similar caliber are, there will be, for the most part, vulnerabilities like this caused by using C.
vulnerabilities were not caused by using C, they were caused by human error. C may be harder to read, but it is way faster than most of the alternatives.
Perhaps you missed the part of the drama where it was revealed years ago that OpenSSL prefers to roll it's own malloc rather than work out issues in their code that were exposed when porting to other platforms? OpenSSL would just have rolled their own shit to circumvent whatever protections you think other languages provide.
It's the attitude that was wrong, not the language. Stupid always finds a way. Back in the day, porting to different compilers and platforms was one way to find and quash bugs. Nowadays I guess you can just pitch a single OSS compiler and rely on it's implementation details and bugs. Drag your own chunks of libc around and presto, no porting headaches. That's such a stupid attitude.