Rust considers memory leaks as safe. However I do find it easier to avoid memory leaks in Rust due to it’s stronger scope based dropping than when I write C.

You can leak memory in Rust too.

I agree, and sincerely, I'm a Rust programmer and "memory safety" is definitely not why I use Rust. There are lots of memory safe languages but I feel more productive and get more satisfaction writing Rust than, say, Python, Lua or C++.

In Rust I feel like almost every time the program works on the first time it compiles successfully, even without writing tests. Probably a combination of very well designed API, builtin RAII, very explicit syntax, compiler strictness and clear docs. I also cannot forget to handle errors (even if I just decide to propagate or crash).

This is what "correctness" means to me, but it isn't exactly enforced by the compiler itself.

The language works for the programmer. Those with a higher focus on safety (like rust) make the worst programmer better.