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Let me put it like this.
You have a group that is just plain retarded. Literally can't do a single thing correctly. They will literally find every failure mode possible, and there will always be failure modes possible, in record time of whatever "idiot proof" product you put before them. But perhaps, they always hit one failure mode first.
You wouldn't fix that first failure mode, declare victory, and act like a new era of idiot proofing is upon us. There are literally an infinite number of other failure modes out there. Including several they will hit in rapid succession now that you've rendered the first physically impossible.
That's what Rust looks like to me. Good job. You made memory incrementally safer from a specific type of exploit. I'm pretty sure exploit technology has come a long way since then. We're all still fucked as long as we keep our systems permanently interconnected.
This makes more sense as far as your earlier "half measure" comment goes. But I still don't think this is a good way of looking at it. Nobody serious is saying "this fixes all things forever", they are saying "this fixes some of the problems". Which is fine - incremental progress is still progress. I think it's better to appreciate that a tool fixes one problem than it is to say "well it doesn't fix all problems so what's the point?".
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Given that interconnection isn't going anywhere, I don't see any good reason not to eliminate failure modes where possible. Nobody is claiming that rust fixes everything.
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