Absolutely, and some people _really_ care about these things. Especially in my domain where things are safety critical like avionics/robotics we absolutely do not want to segfault and fall out of the sky or have degraded capabilities. I have found a lot of interest in using Rust in this domain exactly because of the safety. Especially with the awesome work that RustBelt[1] has done.

Further a compiler that verifies memory safety for you can save an incredible amount of money when otherwise you would need to manually prove memory safety.

[1]: http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/