I'm not on the Rust bandwagon, but statements like this make absolutely no sense.

A lot of software was written in C and C++ because they were the only option for decades. If you couldn't afford garbage collection and needed direct control of the hardware there wasn't much of a choice. Had their been "safer" alternatives, it's possible those would have been used instead.

It's only been in the last few years we've seen languages emerge that could actually replace C/C++ with projects like Rust, Zig and Odin. I'm not saying they will, or they should, but just that we actually have alternatives now.

That's not true when the topic is operating system kernels.

Most software development these days is JS/Typescript slop, popular doesn't equal better

People didn't use seatbelts before seatbelts were invented.

Most of the world uses other languages because they’re easier, not because they’re safer.