Crashes can be difficult to repro, especially if they occur in rare error paths and your software distribution mechanism doesn't yield you in field telemetry. Of course even rust isn't going to catch all issues at compile time (a lot of checks at runtime result in panics), but it does seem to catch many if not most, which is very helpful. This is much like the argument for static typing.

I've used many, debugging both dumps and live processes. And I'll take a compiler that highlights the problem at build time any day.