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Yeah... That's a shit post alright.
I'm not a C developer myself, but that's just a low blow. Also, uncited ;).
This is an overstatement, definitely. C is one of the few (mainstream) languages where memory safety vulnerabilities are even possible. So if you batch C and C++ together, they probably cover more than 90% of all the memory unsafe cove written in last 50 years, which is a strong implication that they will contribute to 90% of memory vulnerabilities.
All that said, memory vulnerabilities are about 65% of all high implact vulnerabilities on Chromium project^1 and about 70% of vulnerabilities at Microsoft ^2.
So we'd only fix 70% of vulnerabilities by switching to rust? Not enough! Better keep writing C/C++!
Yeah the only way it would be that high is if it lumps C and C++ together. But at that point it may be an underestimate.