[willtim]

Or maybe it's because people want to build software that is more secure and reliable (something which C does not have a great track record for)? Google are not the main instigator of this initiative, they are adding their support for it.

[hulitu]

You mean like firefox ? OTOH there was a thread about coreutils written in Rust that crash reliably.

[zxzax]

If the crashes are intentional panics caused because of detection of a memory safety issue, more crashes there are actually good; in a C program they would be silent buffer overflows or memory corruption that don't manifest until later, or may not manifest at all until it becomes a security issue.