Programming in a language other than C++ sometimes feels like putting training wheels on a Ducati and driving 30mph down the freeway. And if you know what you are doing in modern C++, the memory is much easier to deal with. You can do anything and more modern iterations of the language add some nice updates to the syntax sugar. It is rather dense to get your head around it, but once you do it is like writing poetry. I like the idea of just making the hardware safer, is there any downside to that?