Language wars in a nutshell. However, there is a significant contingent of C practitioners who delude themselves into thinking that they are good at writing secure code, when all the world's evidence militates against them. Hopefully one day "C Considered Harmful" is a meme and we only use C, and its memory-unsafe friends, in hopefully increasingly rare places where absolutely nothing else will do.

We need to be realistic and admit C/C++ is part of the problem. The sooner everyone accepts that, the better.