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LE by default successfully ran 2 months prior. 2 months and 5 years are two completely different worlds in terms of bit rot. That and there are many generic tutorials and scripts and knowledgeable devs for configuring LE fresh.

C has some of the best static analysis and debugging tools of any language, but all of that's worthless if you don't use them. Doubly so if you specifically handicap those tools and write your own obfuscated allocation scheme. Heartbleed was less an indictment against C and more an indictment against shitty code.

Even better, you can demonstrate the effect pretty easily. Jog alongside a bike and let it go. If it's fast enough, it will stay upright. You can even try to kick it over and the front wheel will turn towards the direction the bike is falling, "catching" the bike and converting the fall into a turn.