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I've heard this trope before but I'm skeptic. I'm not a C expert but I can't believe memory bugs in that language are so much more benign than in C++.
It's not just that but C is also a much simpler language overall. I've always referred to these two blog posts for some interesting points:
Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part I)
Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (part II)