> Memory safety is just a tiny part of over all security.

70%[1][2] is tiny?

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se... [2]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

> On the other hand, If a LLM cannot correctly transcode, then using Rust may just make the bug soundless, because the language runtime/code-gen "avoided" usual punishments that might make the bug (and bug report) obvious.

Isn't it the other way around? Rust guarantees lack of undefined behavior in safe code. If you have undefined behavior in your code your bug might become a heisenbug, or make the rest of your program behave weird, or the bug might simply be dormant until a very specific situation occurs (i.e. be "soundless" as you say).

If you're going to automatically translate your code from one language to another then a memory-safe target language (whether it's Rust, Java, C# or something else) is the only sane, reasonable choice. And if you want C or C++-like performance (i.e. you want to maximize performance) then you're pretty much left with Rust on the table.