Friday's xkcd is blunt but fair: it's very hard to secure any part of a modern computer stack, and we depend on all of it: https://m.xkcd.com/2166/
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Co-Authored-By: An old Stack Overflow answer, blindly accepting the compiler's suggestions, and a linter.
I'm intrigued to see that Google has quantified that new code is generally buggier and less secure than code that has existed in your codebase for longer: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html
What are the most interesting upcoming scripting languages? Scripting remains an important part of the programming language ecosystem.
Optimise time to first feature. Allow mutation of the running system to experiment. Interactive inspection of data.