Comment by smj-edison

Steelmanning a rust programmer's argument: memory issues have a very large blast radius, as the bugs tend to show up in completely unrelated. Because of this, dependencies on languages not written in Rust can easily corrupt areas that are unrelated.

I feel like one of Rust's defining philosophies is modularity, in the sense that each module should be self-contained, and have clear boundaries. This can come up as an assumption behind their arguments imo.