> Compared to what?

...for somewhat recent languages: Rust, Zig, Odin... (with differing intensity, but they all want to nudge the programmer into a certain direction of how to do things).

> Anyway I find it hard to believe enabling suicide is a good thing

"War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength" ;)

Seriously, if people want to write their programs in assembly code or whatever weird kink, just let them. In the end it is the job of the runtime environment to sandbox untrusted code.