I did not say rust was not better. I said the statement was false, based on a misunderstanding of both the benefits of Rust and the problems of C many if which Rust is not immune to.

Rust is definitely better, hands down, but insisting on thinking code that interacts with unsafe blocks can be "safe by default" is a dangerously wrong mindset which also makes unsafe blocks proliferate without the necessary caution as the problem seem "contained". Anyone remember the actix unsafe saga?

But even though a program with unsafe blocks (read: all rust programs) are by definition not memory safe - calling a language memory safe on current platforms can to some extend even be considered a misnomer - the assistance provided by rust by default certainly helps make such programs much safer.