&gt; C libraries are not pretty but they have been out there for decades, they have been reviewed and used in production.<p>The same was true of Fortran when C came around. I&#x27;m glad K&amp;R didn&#x27;t use this reasoning in 1978 to justify not rewriting things in their new language.<p>&gt; There is no silver bullet, just because you use Rust it doesn&#x27;t mean your programs will be completely safe.<p>Nobody is claiming that Rust eliminates all security vulnerabilities.<p>&gt; A lot of these C libraries were written in more innocent times where a small bug would not affect as many people as it would today.<p>This isn&#x27;t a positive!