We run high-load web services in something-other-than-c with managed memory and checked array access. It is native, 8/9 as fast as C, and it works. We will never have the budget to pay for the additional 1/9th that C would afford us, in terms of security concerns.
Yet, everyday, I have to field questions about why our low-level, network-facing system code is not written in C... old prejudices die hard.
Yet, everyday, I have to field questions about why our low-level, network-facing system code is not written in C... old prejudices die hard.