Comment by danudey

It's all correct and also pointless and irrelevant. It all boils down to "Rust doesn't fix every possible problem so why not stick with something that still has every possible problem?"

In other words, they're upset that a new thing isn't popular so they're trying to think of any argument against it, but none of their arguments are relevant. Yes, you can still write bugs in Rust; of course you can. What you can't do is write memory safety bugs in Rust, which are a huge proportion of security bugs that occur. Rust gives you a massive decrease in attack surface automatically.

This is ignoring the ecosystem, which is full of better tooling, better library packaging, better testing, and just in general an overall better language, but instead of trying to argue the language on its merits they're trying to argue that it's not perfect so why bother.

I've also heard the same arguments about C++; 'anything you can do in C++ you can do in C!', which is technically true but ignores the fact that if I want to do something C++ does it usually makes more sense to use C++ to do it rather than e.g. trying to hack the concept of objects, private methods, templates, etc. into C myself.