[AkshatM]

Before the outage, Cloudflare had Cloudbleed: https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...

The move to Rust was partly motivated because it prevented that entire class of errors. No more out-of-bound reads, or data races. The compiler audits these missed spots.

Now, you could say a managed memory language would suffice as well. Perhaps it could. But we needed performance, and no memory-managed language met those performance needs then or today.

I get you're making the case that Rust isn't perfect for all use cases, but Cloudflare's scenario is the exact corner case your argument falls apart in: we needed fast and safe in an environment where not being fast or safe had real business consequences, and nothing else except Rust gave both.