I’ve marked your words, but I think you have to eat them.

Studies by Microsoft and Google have already been done on this and Rust provides real tangible benefits. No one has ever claimed Rust eliminates all memory errors (if that’s the bar you’re setting), but it makes them vanishingly unlikely, even when you include the prescience of unsafe, thus “eliminating” memory errors (most, not all):

> Memory safety issues, which accounted for 76% of Android vulnerabilities in 2019, and are currently 24% in 2024, well below the 70% industry norm, and continuing to drop.

The old adage is important: do not left perfect be the enemy of good.

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s...