[pornel]

There has been a bunch of failed C killers, and C++ has massively shat the bed, so I understand that people are jaded.

However, this pessimistic tradeoff is just not true in case of Rust — it has been focused from the start on preventing footguns, and actually does a great job of it. You don't trade one kind of failure for another, you replace them with compilation errors, and they've even invested a lot of effort into making these errors clear and useful.