My understanding is that they claim that the average Joe writes code in a garbage-collected memory-safe language.
Which is... true? but irrelevant. Such applications are not suggested to be ported to Rust. Of course, some people still do that, because they like Rust; but that's their personal choice.
PHP is garbage collected for reference. So rewriting wordpress plugins in Rust would not make them more secure but rewriting HAProxy or Nginx would? It's delusional.
If the class of bugs WordPress has is different from the class of bugs HAProxy/Nginx, eg SQl injection vs buffer overflow, then why is a different mehtoyof fixing "delusional"?
