Maybe 20 years from now it would get into the same situation, but the point is in those 20 years it could be a lot easier to maintain. Also, the whole point of Rust is to eliminate some <i>classes</i> of bugs, which means there would literally be orders of magnitude fewer bugs to deal with.<p>So I don&#x27;t think that saying there will be bugs in the new libraries, too, is fair criticism.<p>Also, what&#x27;s clear is that Linus Torvalds&#x27; &quot;just don&#x27;t be stupid and write incorrect code&quot; policy doesn&#x27;t work. We need to think of security from a <i>design</i> point of view, not rely on your average programmer to write academically perfect code as a security policy.