There are millions of pieces of software in C or C++ with more than a couple thousand commits, whereas with rust there are maybe a handful (the rust compiler itself, Servo, Deno, and... ?), and I bet they all had to fix memory safety bugs (except I guess we call them "soundness issues" in Rust).

This argument reads like the old "Linux / macOS is safer than Windows, look at all the malware that targets Windows" while ignoring that at the time Windows had 95%+ market share for desktop.