> Pause for a moment and think about what a C++ implementation of a globally distributed network ingress proxy service would look like - and how many memory vulnerabilities there would be… I shudder at the thought

I mean thats an unfalsifiable statement, not really fair. C is used to successfully launch spaceships.

Whereas we have a real Rust bug that crashed a good portion of the internet for a significant amount of time. If this was a C++ service everyone would be blaming the language, but somehow Rust evangelicals are quick to blame it on "unidiomatic Rust code".

A language that lets this easily happen is a poorly designed language. Saying you need to ban a commonly used method in all production code is broken.