> It's genuinely difficult to understand why Rust gets rammed down everyone's throats lately; do they really think developers coming out of universities today are too stupid to grasp memory management?

Yes. Experimentally, that is absolutely correct. New programmers are bad at memory management. So are old ones. So are experts, unless you seriously want to argue that the OpenBSD gang are a bunch of amateurs.

The best C/C++ programmers in the world still write code with memory flaws today. At some point you have to say, you know, maybe it's not the programmers that are the problem.