The same was true of Fortran when C came around. I'm glad K&R didn't use this reasoning in 1978 to justify not rewriting things in their new language.
> There is no silver bullet, just because you use Rust it doesn't mean your programs will be completely safe.
Nobody is claiming that Rust eliminates all security vulnerabilities.
> A lot of these C libraries were written in more innocent times where a small bug would not affect as many people as it would today.
This isn't a positive!
The same was true of Fortran when C came around. I'm glad K&R didn't use this reasoning in 1978 to justify not rewriting things in their new language.
> There is no silver bullet, just because you use Rust it doesn't mean your programs will be completely safe.
Nobody is claiming that Rust eliminates all security vulnerabilities.
> A lot of these C libraries were written in more innocent times where a small bug would not affect as many people as it would today.
This isn't a positive!