Comment by OneLessThing

This is why I love C. You can build these guard rails at exactly the right level for you. You can build them all the way up to CPython and do garbage collection and constant bounds checking. Or keep them at just raw pointer math. And everywhere in between. I like your approach. The downside being that there are probably 100,000+ bespoke implementations of similar guard rails where python users for example all get them for free.