I agree. While Rust is clearly a step forward in programming languages (and we need a step forward), modern tools built to deal with the issues common in C and

I agree. While Rust is clearly a step forward in programming languages (and we need a step forward), modern tools built to deal with the issues common in C and C++ like coverage-guided fuzzers, ASan, Valgrind, etc. have made huge improvements in finding memory safety vulnerabilities and other issues. Mitigations have also improved, making it more difficult to exploit memory safety issues. While I think that unmanaged (i.e. no runtime or interpreter) memory-safe programming languages are a good idea, they're not magic and we shouldn't ignore the other major security tooling improvements recently.