Let's rewrite everything - said every 15 minutes by every new developer with a new toy.
How about being constructive instead - old bug in old code is no surprise, no matter the language/technology.
Someone needs to tell DARPA:
https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/translating-all-c-to...
This was hardly a convincing argument before the current CVE explosion. By now C needs to be dead and buried for network accessible code.