Being written in an unsafe language open by default to all kinds of security exploits is the antithesis of working great.

It is called Bash, and that is just one example.

Besides any value greater than zero is already too much.

Sure there are plenty of memory safe languages, with bounds checking on vector and string data structures, proper length handling without missing null terminators, pointer null validation on use, where UB is not 200+ entries on the language standard and increasing...