This is more nuanced in Rust's case.

Rust is trying to systemically improve safety and reliability of programs, so the degree to which it succeeds is Rust's problem.

OTOH we also have people interpreting it as if Rust was supposed to miraculously prevent all bugs, and they take any bug in any Rust program as a proof by contradiction that Rust doesn't work.

It might be a bit of bad publicity for those who want to rewrite as much as possible in Rust. While Rust is not to blame, it shows that just rewriting something in Rust doesn't magically make it better (as some Rust hype might suggest). Maybe Ubuntu was a bit too eager in adopting the Rust Coreutils, caring more about that hype than about stability.

>OTOH we also have people interpreting it as if Rust was supposed to miraculously prevent all bugs, and they take any bug in any Rust program as a proof by contradiction that Rust doesn't work.

Yeah, that's such a tired take. If anything this shows how good Rust's guarantees are. We had a bunch of non-experts rewrite a sizable number of tools that had 40 years of bugfixes applied. And Canonical just pulled the rewritten versions in all at once and there are mostly a few performance regressions on edge cases.

I find this such a great confirmation of the Rust language design. I've seen a few rewrites in my career, and it rarely goes this smoothly.

> Rust is trying to systemically improve safety and reliability of programs, so the degree to which it succeeds is Rust's problem.

GNU coreutils first shipped in what, the 1980s? It's so old that it would be very hard to find the first commit. Whereas uutils is still beta software which didn't ask to be representative of "Rust", at all. Moreover, GNU coreutils are still sometimes not compatible with their UNIX forebears. Even considering this first, more modest standard, it is ridiculous to hold this software to it, in particular.

> OTOH we also have people interpreting it as if Rust was supposed to miraculously prevent all bugs

That is the narative that rust fanboys promote. AFAIK rust could be usefull for a particular kind of bugs (memory safety). Rust programs can also have coding errors or other bugs.