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Memory safe languages aren't a panacea. There could just as easily have been a bug in the compiler or standard library with the same result.

Sure... but that probability is equally present in the non memory-safe language, so that doesn't change anything.

I've yet to learn a language where not handling exceptional cases properly did not result in a bug.

The point is not the absence of bugs. In a memory safe language, usually a bug doesn't lead in leaking the content of freed memory.