Yes, you are not alone in being surprised by this. Another thing that sometimes surprises people is deadlocks, and maybe the Fearless Concurrency slogan is par

Yes, you are not alone in being surprised by this. Another thing that sometimes surprises people is deadlocks, and maybe the Fearless Concurrency slogan is partially to blame. To Rust's defense, both are extraordinary hard problems, and Rust's tooling is better than that of other languages in the space. For memory leaks we have (above and beyond the usual suspects from the C/C++ world like valgrind) the leak detection in MIRI. For deadlocks we have the parking_lot crate.