Not really. C++, at least modern C++, is a huge improvement in terms of safety over C. The problem with C++ is that this improvement has been achieved in a clumsy way: instead of providing clearly differentiated means of static abstraction (e.g., non-specializable generics for parametric polymorphism and concepts for ad-hoc polymorphism), we get templates, which have been equipped with all sorts of corner cases (specialization, SFINAE).