&gt; I read the kind of criticisms you made I assume they come from people too young to have real world experience on what they&#x27;re criticizing.<p>Actually, every single year I&#x27;ve worked on security-critical software I&#x27;ve understood more and more how impossible it is to secure large C and C++ codebases worked on by large teams with just &quot;careful coding&quot;. The picture changes a lot when you have people actively searching for vulnerabilities.