Awesome article!

Totally agree on the choice of language point - C is an incredibly dangerous language to write in if you don't need to, and there are some pretty good alternatives surfacing these days that are garbage collected like Go or have a very strict compile time borrow checker like Rust.

The argument that programmers "should" be able to manage memory safely is all well and good but it's backed more by ego than pragmatism... just look at the continual stream of CVEs and security patches.