Wait, I'll throw another out there. I agree with the C++ project owner (who's name escapes me) This isn't a C++ issue, it's a "native C" issue. His statements were something like modern C++, if used with recommended practices is considered a memory safe language.

I'm tired of this whole (my straw man) : "Developers are too dumb and lazy, and continue to have high rates of a particular error, they just need to learn this new language that people keep saying will prevent these issues instead of learning to use the current language with best practices" debate where we need to use rust everywhere, and then rust devs think their safe from memory issues and that it's a massive security talking point to write a bad program in rust and call it secure.

Just stop. Get better. Learn from mistakes. Software mistakes will occur, don't be so reliant on mistake free programming??