Yup, anyone defending this behavior needs a screw tightened.
The dev "pushing back" was being an asshole probably because of deep insecurity of gasp there being other programming languages than C.
Literally rust is currently being proposed for maybe new drivers and basically nothing else ATM. Nobody is suggesting rewriting code in rust or forcing people to learn rust. It is literally just "Hey, might be nice to write this driver for my mouse in a memory safe language".
