A related post from Google Security Blog[0]: > "A recent study[1] found that "~70% of the vulnerabilities addressed through a security update each year continu

A related post from Google Security Blog[0]: > "A recent study[1] found that "~70% of the vulnerabilities addressed through a security update each year continue to be memory safety issues.” Another analysis on security issues in the ubiquitous `curl` command line tool showed that 53 out of 95 bugs would have been completely prevented by using a memory-safe language. [...]" [0]: https://security.googleblog.com/2021/02/mitigating-memory-safety-issues-in-open.html https://security.googleblog.com/2021/02/mitigating-memory-sa... [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/blob/master/presentations/2019_02_BlueHatIL/2019_01%20-%20BlueHatIL%20-%20Trends%2C%20challenge%2C%20and%20shifts%20in%20software%20vulnerability%20mitigation.pdf https://github.com/Microsoft/MSRC-Security-Research/blob/mas...