alt Hacker NewsYou make a false equivalence between being an idiot/“didn’t know what they were doing” and not knowing how to properly manage memory. Also, why do you think the devs who worked on google chrome weren’t idiots?
Some of the most important and safety critical large scale projects in the history of humanity had/have manual memory management. If you think the effort of doing it correctly is not worth it for certain projects, that may be a reasonable opinion. But the idea that humans cannot write correct C/C++ programs is in direct contradiction to historical fact.
if you go around pulling out logic flaw arguments and then proceed to commit logic flaws yourself, it isn't a good look man. the quoted statement was "beyond most intelligent individuals" which contradicts your assertion that the argument was stated as "humans cannot write correct C". anyway I do find it ultra amusing how software engineers believe software engineering is the backbone of programming, when in reality it is merely the flesh. we landed men on the moon long before Rust was even zygotic. for all its benefits, the argument to use memory safe languages ultimately serves to benefit large corporations who can faster generate profit by faster churning out code.