&gt; Do you believe that security software or browsers are better writen in other languages than C&#x2F;C++?<p>Yes. And lots and lots of apps (most public network facing things) are security sensitive.<p>&gt; Please think of some well known Perl and PHP applications and their security record.<p>Nobody is saying that &quot;memory safe == no vulnerabilities&quot;. I do think it&#x27;s true that being memory unsafe results in <i>many more</i> vulnerabilities. I&#x27;ve measured this precise statistic in our bug tracker.<p>&gt; That&#x27;s because correct C-style memory management never† scales up to large software projects in a way that doesn&#x27;t result in crashes and, worse, vulnerabilities.<p>It&#x27;s true. And I work in native code myself!<p>It&#x27;s only an insult if you presuppose that introducing vulnerabilities reflects badly on the programmer who introduced them. I don&#x27;t believe that; most major vulnerabilities I&#x27;ve seen were introduced by very good programmers. It&#x27;s a problem with the tools they&#x27;re working with.