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I like what tptacek wrote in the sibling comment. IIUC Rust keeps getting mentioned as "the" memory-safe language because it's generally equally fast compared to C programs. And it's mainly C and C++ that are memory-unsafe. So Rust is good language to combat the argument of speed (that's often interchangeable with profits in business world, especially if security issues have a flat rate of cyber insurance).