But please don't think of Rust (or anything else) as a silver bullet. If you are doing systems programming you are going to deal with unsafe code somewhat frequently. And, by not being exposed to this kind of programming often enough, it's possible that more errors will slip through the cracks.
Then there's a whole class of errors that cannot be prevented by memory safe languages. They cannot prevent crappy practices.
While true, it is quite different have to worry about lets say 10% of the code easy tracked down by unsafe blocks, or every time a string, array, memory allocation, numeric manipulation is performed.
But please don't think of Rust (or anything else) as a silver bullet. If you are doing systems programming you are going to deal with unsafe code somewhat frequently. And, by not being exposed to this kind of programming often enough, it's possible that more errors will slip through the cracks.
Then there's a whole class of errors that cannot be prevented by memory safe languages. They cannot prevent crappy practices.