This year alone saw 2 issues from Project Zero in Chrome that would have been prevented by Rust - both OOB accesses, one with a helping of data racing.
Chromium is an incredibly security-sensitive piece of software, and that really is an excellent fit for Rust. It's not a boogeyman argument and the Chromium team themselves are the ones pursuing it, it's not being forced on them.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?q=produ...
This year alone saw 2 issues from Project Zero in Chrome that would have been prevented by Rust - both OOB accesses, one with a helping of data racing.
Chromium is an incredibly security-sensitive piece of software, and that really is an excellent fit for Rust. It's not a boogeyman argument and the Chromium team themselves are the ones pursuing it, it's not being forced on them.