Among others the Objective-C crowd might want to have a chat with you about it being the "widely-accepted state of the art." This is ignoring the fact that memory management does not really address C's ability to do unsafe memory operations as much as its just resource management.
I really should have said garbage collection + RAII. I'm not saying that GC is accepted by everyone, just among the people working in current memory-safe languages. (Or are you saying that ObjC does something even better that's yet to catch on?)
It's not so much about a language's ability to do unsafe memory operations, but the necessity of doing them to write useful code in the language.
