I think even heartbleed would be mitigated with (safe) Rust. IIRC heartbleed was caused by a missing bounds check, which allowed attackers to read past the mess

I think even heartbleed would be mitigated with (safe) Rust. IIRC heartbleed was caused by a missing bounds check, which allowed attackers to read past the message buffer and leak secrets from nearby memory. Safe Rust would just panic (crash) if you tried to slice past the end of the buffer.