You're just going back to saying "Rust is better than C!" which is true, but uninteresting. The question at hand was whether this bug would have happened in a

You're just going back to saying "Rust is better than C!" which is true, but uninteresting. The question at hand was whether this bug would have happened in a memory-safe language. And in fact it could have, because it's implementing an optimization Rust can only emulate using unsafe. This is what drives me bananas about the rust community. The religion around memory safety persists even in circumstances where it doesn't exist. That's a cult, not an engineering effort.