[afdbcreid]

My understanding is that they claim that the average Joe writes code in a garbage-collected memory-safe language.

Which is... true? but irrelevant. Such applications are not suggested to be ported to Rust. Of course, some people still do that, because they like Rust; but that's their personal choice.

[jurschreuder]

PHP is garbage collected for reference. So rewriting wordpress plugins in Rust would not make them more secure but rewriting HAProxy or Nginx would? It's delusional.

[fragmede]

If the class of bugs WordPress has is different from the class of bugs HAProxy/Nginx, eg SQl injection vs buffer overflow, then why is a different mehtoyof fixing "delusional"?