On: Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue...

[blub]

And then it's a matter of begging others to use the said constrained language, because it's a PITA to use :)

[astrobe_ → blub]

Well, yes. What people forget to mention is that security always has a price. That's why less safe languages are more popular.

[staticassertion → astrobe_]

Less safe languages are not more popular at all. Memory safety was a huge selling point for languages like Java, Python, etc.

The cost in those cases is performance. The cost is offset massively by productivity.

It's less about direct costs and more about constraints and priorities.