[grandiego]

> Most utilities do not have to face the network

True, but code from those utilities may eventually be used in the network (for example, through copied functionality and shared libraries). Also, a creative pipeline may actually involve them (think of the Unix philosophy.)

Eventually plain C has to die or be relegated to unavoidable places like in the assembly cases, even if Rust is not the best alternative after all.

[zifpanachr23]

This is based on a common fallacy that people believe about CVEs vs. what actually gets exploited. I would go back and read the papers that got you so aggressively on board the memory safety train one more time and see if you can't detect motivated reasoning.

[lolinder]

If you have an argument to make, make it. This isn't a classroom and you're not an instructor, assigning homework to people who disagree with you isn't an effective argumentation technique.

[treyd]

What is the fallacy, specifically?