Comment by Keyframe

    Whenever C gets brought up, people are like, "pointers... memory... dangerous!"

That's actually the point. It's even coded into C2x charter ( http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2086.htm ):

    The new spirit of C can be summarized in phrases like:

        (a) Trust the programmer.
        (b) Don't prevent the programmer from doing what needs to be done.
        (c) Keep the language small and simple.
        (d) Provide only one way to do an operation.
        (e) Make it fast, even if it is not guaranteed to be portable.
        (f) Make support for safety and security demonstrable.