It sounds like you were dealing with code written by physicists. Which probably means they were doing literally everything wrong. And there's a snowball's chanc

It sounds like you were dealing with code written by physicists. Which probably means they were doing literally everything wrong. And there's a snowball's chance in hell you'd be able to convince them to rewrite it in rust, because "it's too hard". And even if you convinced their boss to force them to rewrite it in rust, everything would be in unsafe blocks. And they'd complain the language is too verbose because every function has to be cluttered with unsafe blocks. They wouldn't complain about the unnecessary indentation though, because all of their code either isn't indented or is nested off the right side of the screen. Not that I'm bitter. (I'm bitter) Academic code being shitty can't be fixed by inventing a better language.