> And yet somehow the internet went down because of a program written in rust that didn’t validate input.

What? The Cloudflare bug was from a broken system configuration that eventually cascaded into (among other things) a Rust program with hardcoded limits that crashed loudly. In no way did that Rust program bring down the internet; it was the canary, not the gas leak. Anybody trying to blame Rust for that event has no idea what they're talking about.