It's mostly from the cybersecurity standpoint actually, at least for large projects / companies. MS, Chromium, Project Zero, Mozilla, have pretty consistently f

It's mostly from the cybersecurity standpoint actually, at least for large projects / companies. MS, Chromium, Project Zero, Mozilla, have pretty consistently found that north of 70% of vulnerabilities were rooted in memory safety. The dev-error is broader language guarantees, which dovetail into memory safety but are useful on their own e.g. data race safety, rich type system, ...