> and I’m not wholly sold on the “memory safety” of Rust when something like Python can just put the performance sensitive parts in C and have safety for everything else.

> Most languages are memory safe.

As I said, there's more to Rust than just memory safety. If memory safety were the only thing Rust offered then I think it wouldn't have garnered nearly as much attention as it has. It's memory safety on top of everything else that makes it as interesting as it is.