Also, TrapC reuses a few code safety features from C++, notably member functions, constructors, destructors, and the new keyword. TrapC is not the only attempt to deal with memory safety in C or C++.

About 22 percent of all software programmers used C++, and 19 percent used C as of 2023, according to Statista, making them less popular than JavaScript, Python, Java and a few others.