I am definitely of the opinion we need to rush away from C. Rust, Go, Zig, etc does not matter, but anything which can catch some of the repeated mistakes that squishy humans keep repeating.
That being said, the file system is one of those infrastructure bits where you cannot make a mistake. Introduce a memory corruption bug leading to crashes every Thursday? Whatever. Total loss of data for 0.1% of users during a leap year at a total eclipse? Apocalypse.
There is no amount of being too careful when interfacing with storage. C may have a lot of foibles, but it is the devil we know.
That being said, the file system is one of those infrastructure bits where you cannot make a mistake. Introduce a memory corruption bug leading to crashes every Thursday? Whatever. Total loss of data for 0.1% of users during a leap year at a total eclipse? Apocalypse.
There is no amount of being too careful when interfacing with storage. C may have a lot of foibles, but it is the devil we know.