I hadn't actually followed the link in the original post. I see that the claims there were slightly different than what I was thinking of. Nonetheless, I stand

I hadn't actually followed the link in the original post. I see that the claims there were slightly different than what I was thinking of. Nonetheless, I stand by what I wrote above. In particular, while I of course agree with the author that one can write buggy code in any language, I also have found that following Rust's idioms leads to code that is less buggy. This is not unique to Rust: I've also had similar experiences in Scala and Ocaml. What Rust brings to the table is that it supports zero-cost-abstractions, doesn't require a virtual machine, and guarantees data-race-freedom (a rather useful propery).