Comment by ThereIsNoWorry

That's one of those misguided deep sounding statements that are based in a fundamental lack of knowledge. What you, or this guy at the CS department, said is completely bullshit, evidenced by simple statistics of memory safety in languages. There is a reason many big companies are adopting Rust, and it's not just because "they feel like it" or they lack coders that "can program in C". E.g. take a look at: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-language...