Viewing Rust as a panacea for security issues is certainly misguided. However, people should at least attempt to use a more memory safe language to write this

Viewing Rust as a panacea for security issues is certainly misguided. However, people should at least attempt to use a more memory safe language to write this stuff. If it proves to be worse code, then we're not forced to use it - we already have getaddrinfo to fall back on.