> You may have never written a memory bug in your life, but I have, and that renders me completely incompetent.
This feels overly binary. Memory management bugs is just one class of bugs, and there have been many other bugs leading to security issues or defects.
If you apply the standard "has ever written a bug" → "completely incompetent" you will have to stop using software, and if you think about it most other technology too
Memory safety is a very useful trait for a language though, and as you say provided by a whole bunch of different languages nowadays
This feels overly binary. Memory management bugs is just one class of bugs, and there have been many other bugs leading to security issues or defects.
If you apply the standard "has ever written a bug" → "completely incompetent" you will have to stop using software, and if you think about it most other technology too
Memory safety is a very useful trait for a language though, and as you say provided by a whole bunch of different languages nowadays