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> I can write a buffer overflow in any language. ... It's perfectly simple to trash memory in Rust.

Not in safe Rust.

You're more right than wrong, but I want to push back just a little. You can write a buffer overflow in safe rust if you store multiple things in the same array and work with indices rather than slices. Of course the risk is bounded by what shares an array, and it's more awkward than doing it any of several right ways. You won't write a buffer overflow in safe rust... but you can if you want to.

This is a bit like saying "you can write a buffer overflow in any turing-complete language, because you can write a C emulator, and then write the buffer overflow in C"

A bit, but in that case the buffer overflow is arguably still "in C" in a way that it isn't in my example.

As I said, you won't write a buffer overflow in rust, but unpacking why can be interesting and it doesn't end at "bounds checks".

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