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?

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.

Rust does take less time to learn than C.