Well, if you're not interested in factual discussions and you simply "choose to believe trends", all bets are off since you're pulling in your feelings about a programming language into your arguments. Hope all goes well for you anyway!

As a counter-point, the biggest disasters I've seen has been involving either C++ or C#, but in the end I think the reason they were disasters were because of the programmers (and their ego) rather than the programming languages they worked with. C++ is plenty open and without safeties, but that doesn't mean you have to use it like that.