Id go ahead and open a feature request for it on their github. Id be supprised if they wernt open towards the idea given they run one of the largest instances themselves

Rust is not fully memory safe like garbage collected languages due to having to use smart pointers for self referencial datastructures from my understanding

If your college educated in cs, and your main issue with a codebase is the language its writen in, i have some serious questions as to how the hell you graduated