> If arguments about C++ are "technical bullshit", you should easily be able to explain why virtually no large-scale C++ project has been free of memory safety problems.

Way to generalize there. No C++ project has been free of memory safety problems because they don't have to be. C++ is not optimized for that. Sure you can optimize for memory safety but then real hackers (not on "Hacker" News) will find something else, and then all the internet idiots will crow on about how {LANGUAGE} doesn't sufficiently protect them from {SCARY THING}.

Maybe if we stopped adding every feature under-the-sun to our browsers, memory safety problems wouldn't be so prevalent! (But we can't have that, not if there is less money to be made!)