[burntsushi]

> Also, let's get this straight: I am saying that the claim "Rust reduces exploitable bugs" has not been proven yet. Let's stick to that, shall we?

I don't know how one "proves" that claim. But it definitely has enough supporting evidence to be a very reasonable belief. I certainly believe it.

I just find your entire approach here to be so strange. On the one hand, you're demanding concrete evidence, but on the other, you're waving your hands about latent bugs and quantifying the number of known bugs with zero supporting evidence.

I think this is one of those things that's common sense and you're overthinking it.