[aw1621107]

> Every C bug was taken as clear evidence that we need to abandon C and switch to Rust.

I think more charitably it's every "simple" C bug that tends to provoke that reaction. Buffer overflows, use-after-frees, things for which mechanically-enforceable solutions have existed and been widespread for a while. I think more exotic bugs tend to produce more interesting discussions since the techniques for avoiding those bugs tend to be similarly exotic.

> So the fact that there are also such bugs in Rust

Similarly, I think you need to be careful about what exactly "such bugs" encompasses. This bug wasn't one of the above "simple" bugs IMHO, so I would guess an equivalent bug in C code would at least avoid the worst of the more strident calls you so dislike. Hard to say for sure, though, given our unfortunate lack of a time machine.

[uecker]

I agree with you that this is more nuanced and that I oversimplified this a bit in my comment.