> I cannot see why in the face of astounding evidence like this, you would completely dismiss it.
Because it's not a silver bullet. That safety comes at a cost; Rust is much more difficult to learn than C or Zig and the compilation time for code with equivalent semantics is an order of magnitude greater. It has also added a great deal of toolchain complexity to projects like the Linux kernel.
People have decided that the pros outweigh the cons in those particular cases, but those cons exist nonetheless.
Because it's not a silver bullet. That safety comes at a cost; Rust is much more difficult to learn than C or Zig and the compilation time for code with equivalent semantics is an order of magnitude greater. It has also added a great deal of toolchain complexity to projects like the Linux kernel.
People have decided that the pros outweigh the cons in those particular cases, but those cons exist nonetheless.