This is not a good anecdote - You hit a 10 year old bug because your sysadmin was too lazy to update gcc and then formed a bad impression of the software?

Guess what, if you install a 10 year old version rust none of your code would not compile at all. Your logic is so flawed its hard to believe you are being serious. If anything it's impressive that a 10 year old C compiler worked most of the time when most other languages are not stable on these timescales.