It's a common misconception due in large part to Rust's marketing.
Claim: Rust enables you to eliminate many classes of bugs at compile-time. (https://www.rust-lang.org, "Why Rust?", "Reliability")
Reality: Rust enables you to eliminate an extremely limited class of bugs at compile time, and also inserts if statements into your program to detect some other classes of bugs at runtime and crash cleanly.
Claim: Rust enables you to eliminate many classes of bugs at compile-time. (https://www.rust-lang.org, "Why Rust?", "Reliability")
Reality: Rust enables you to eliminate an extremely limited class of bugs at compile time, and also inserts if statements into your program to detect some other classes of bugs at runtime and crash cleanly.