If anyone does decide to pursue this, you can use napi-rs [0] to write Rust modules and call it from JS. Lower overhead than IPC but you will crash your process if there's an issue in your Rust code.
We considered it and decided all the wrangling wasn't worth it. Briefly also thought about adding in a python process to interact with our ML models, but figured it was worth streamlining this all into a single language/framework vs. creating frankenstein's monster.
