People really like to hate on Rust for some reason. This wasn’t a Rust problem, no language would have saved them from this kind of issue. In fact, the compiler would have warned that this was a possible issue.

I get it, don’t pick languages just because they are trendy, but if any company’s use case is a perfect fit for Rust it’s cloudflare.

Yeah even if you handled this situation without unwrap() if you just went down an error path that didn't panic, the service would likely still be inoperable if every single request went down the error path.