&gt; Writing more code doesn&#x27;t make you productive or a better programmer.<p>True, but also irrelevant. I have never seen a reasonable metric of &quot;good programmer&quot; that correlates negatively with the number of exploitable memory management bugs they introduce.<p>&gt; Also, i&#x27;m not sure how you get a use after free in C++ these days given the libraries and tooling available<p>Search the Chromium and Firefox bug trackers.<p>Whether use after free actually happens in large C++ codebases isn&#x27;t something that can be debated. It&#x27;s reasonable to have different opinions about how to fix the problem, and it&#x27;s even reasonable to say that it&#x27;s not worth fixing. But it&#x27;s not reasonable to deny the data.