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Colleges should not be churning out "programmers" with skills in one language. Trade schools would be better for that.

In college I learned theory and algorithms, and was exposed to half a dozen programming languages at least. I mastered none of them, that wasn't the point.

yeah, and that license should be revoked if you decide to use a memory unsafe language for code exposed to untrusted input

Didn't you hear? It's only programming if you use assembly.

Use of a memory safe or high level language results in immediate revocation of the Programmer Card™.

Are you implying that Rust takes less time to "learn" (whatever that means) than C? Have you seen Rust?

Rust does take less time to learn than C.

I think it's commonly accepted that it takes less time to write memory-safe code in Rust than in C. It's also commonly accepted that for stuff where you can leverage a lots of libraries and mostly write glue code, Rust is faster than C. It's up to you to evaluate if those are your goals or not.