Valgrind is bandage sadly only available to GNU/Linux developers with lots of RAM to spare. Not fully available, if at all, when other systems need to be targeted.
Fully agree with static analysis.
My point is that at least with C++ you get the help of stronger type checking, RAII and automatic memory management via the available collections.
But of course, the C compatibility is both an advantage in terms of helped adoption, but also a weight in terms of being able to write secure code.
