Heartbleed was a great demonstration of critical systems that were under appreciated.
Too few maintainers, too few security researchers and too little funding.
When writing systems as complicated and as sensitive as the leading encryption suite used globally, no language choice will save you from under resourcing.
Agreed. I rather dislike the idea of "safe" coding languages. Fighting with a memory leak in an elixir app, for the past week. I never viewed c or c++ as unsafe. Writing code is hard, always has been, always will be. It is never safe.
Safe code is just code that cannot have Undefined Behavior. C and C++ have the concept of "soundness" just like Rust, just no way to statically guard against it.
