"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2024-22252 for the project VMWare ESXi, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a vulnerability that allows someone with root access to a guest domain to execute arbitrary code as the VMX host process. This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen. "This was a terrible trag...