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

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix decompressing two files in the same invocation of gzip (that's possible???) an attacker can trigger out of bound reads in the LZH decoder, causing reads past the end of the shared global buffer that is somehow not reset between invocations. This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen. "This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there's nothing anyone can do to stop them," said programmer Mr. Jayson Hilpert, echoing statements expressed by hundreds of thousands of programmers who use the only language where 90% of the world's memory safety vulnerabilities have occurred in the last 50 years, and whose projects are 20 times more likely to have security vulnerabilities. "It's…