Since it’s in German, here are the key points of the article (written from memory - the article is quite old, so I might misremember - best read the article yourself):
Software development is stuck in a vicious cycle regarding project budgets.
Some competitors don’t know better and just budget the “happy path”, that assumes that everything during development goes right.
The author uses a term for this which I like a lot: “Hybris of the programmer”
Other competitors know better, but still have to lie in order to remain competitive when it comes to prices
Therefore almost all software projects end up with a way too low budget
So we get buggy software
Rust might be a way out of this misery, because
it is understood that it takes longer to develop something with Rust
but on the flip-side the safety-guarantees rule out a lot of bugs
so customers who choose to have their project implemented using Rust are fully aware of the higher costs, but also the higher quality
and developers have a well known argument for the higher costs, and also have data that shows how this higher investment will yield a better quality product.
This is so fucking stupid, I can’t even.
For your mental health, have some reasonable arguments about Rust: https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Entwicklung-Warum-Rust-die-Antwort-auf-miese-Software-und-Programmierfehler-ist-4879795.html
Since it’s in German, here are the key points of the article (written from memory - the article is quite old, so I might misremember - best read the article yourself):
The first point applies to any kind of engineering anyway.