<i>You&#x27;re entire premise revolves around 0.01% of the population. That&#x27;s not a good basis.</i><p>Mine is the basis of billions of dollars of engineering and untold amounts of legislative and regulatory efforts around the planet.  A <i>lot</i> of people seem to think it&#x27;s a pretty important basis.<p><i>let&#x27;s not get carried away with exaggerating how &quot;bad&quot; a &quot;problem&quot; is</i><p>On one hand you ask others not to exaggerate, next you&#x27;re talking about pitchforks.  The story we&#x27;re discussing is about someone reimplementing one little 300 line procedure.  I made no more of Rust than to call it a better tool in the toolbox.  Calm yourself; these pitchfork wielding exaggerators you speak of are fictions inside your head.<p><i>stand the test of time. C has, clearly</i><p>The buffer overflows, dangling pointers, double frees, use after frees and leaks recorded daily as CVEs is the most demonstrative thing time has revealed about C et al.  If C had past the test of time Rust wouldn&#x27;t exist.