Your “experience” (bias?) is easily falsified. Obviously memory issues happen all the time in unsafe languages, but even then, not nearly at the frequency that

Your “experience” (bias?) is easily falsified. Obviously memory issues happen all the time in unsafe languages, but even then, not nearly at the frequency that a novice Rust user will conflict with the borrow checker. The article we’re commenting on is literally about safe code that the borrow checker fails on.