&gt; Bugs will always exist. But that statement will apply equally to any software, regardless of language.<p>I&#x27;d be curious to see some research suggesting that the prevalence and severity of those bugs is identical regardless of development tool&#x2F;language&#x2F;runtime, but I&#x27;d be surprised if that&#x27;s demonstrable.<p>The question at hand is not &quot;will safer languages eliminate all bugs?&quot; It&#x27;s &quot;will safer languages reduce the prevalence and severity of important classes of bugs?&quot; I&#x27;d wager it&#x27;s probably yes, but even if you disagree, I don&#x27;t think that it&#x27;s reasonable to suggest that because there will always be bugs we should never improve.