Rewriting it has nothing to do with it being in Rust. The reality is that I don't have a lot of free time, but I really wanted to get the project into a functio

Rewriting it has nothing to do with it being in Rust. The reality is that I don't have a lot of free time, but I really wanted to get the project into a functioning state (even if it sucked). So I took some shortcuts a couple years ago in order to get it fully functioning (more or less) in a short amount of time. I would have taken those same shortcuts in any language.