Where are these rust fans? Are they in the room with us right now?

You’ve constructed a strawman with no basis in reality.

You know what actual Rust fans sound like? They sound like Matthias Endler, who wrote the article we’re discussing. Matthias hosts a popular podcast Rust in Production where talks with people about sharp edges and difficulties they experienced using Rust.

A true Rust advocate like him writes articles titled “Bugs Rust Won’t Catch”.

> Such rewritten software packages should remain for years as optional alternatives to the originals.

This project was started a decade ago. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7882211)

> must first present to the world the results of a huge set of correctness tests and performance benchmarks

Yeah, you can see those in https://github.com/uutils/coreutils. This project has also worked with GNU coreutils maintainers to add more tests over time. Check out the graph where the total number of tests increases over time.

> before the substitution idea is even put forward

I partly agree. But notice that these CVEs come from a thorough security audit paid for by Canonical. Canonical is paying for it because they have a plan to substitute in the immediate future.

Without a plan to substitute it’s hard to advocate for funding. Without funding it’s hard to find and fix these issues. With these issues unfixed it’s hard to plan to substitute.

Chicken and egg problem.

> less bugs

Fewer.