[PDF] Bjarne Stroustrup responds to the NSA and U.S. Government's stated initiative to drive the public away from using C/C++ based on flawed and noob-ish fears of memory protection

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Hahaha that is ridiculous, but to be fair I know a lot of programmers that can't be trusted to manage memory deallocation or raw pointers. Rust is a reasonable alternative for many use cases and one can be sure there aren't these issues outside of unsafe blocks