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> Most code written in C is horribly unsafe.

I think that is untrue. I worked at the Network Systems arm of Bell Labs for sixteen years, and we could demonstrate five-nines of uptime on complex systems written entirely in C.

C is a rough tool, I will grant you that, and Rust is a welcome addition to the toolkit, but saying that most code written in C is horribly unsafe, does not make it true.

>>greyha+(OP)
Perhaps I misunderstand, but I don't imagine most individuals or companies writing production C code to be on the same "level of competency" as a research company as prestigious as Bell Labs.

>>paoda+ki
UNIX was found to be less secure than Multics, thanks to the additional safety guarantees provided by PL/I type system.

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf

So not even back then.