1. VS Code with the Rust plugin along with rustfmt and the rls is great - when it works. I've had some issues now and then, but the tooling is pretty great. 2.

1. VS Code with the Rust plugin along with rustfmt and the rls is great - when it works. I've had some issues now and then, but the tooling is pretty great. 2. Not qualified to answer this 3. There's a ton of rust libraries out there. The whole cargo ecosystem is quite nice. Coming from a C background (and dabbling in lisp), I love Rust. It's C with batteries and concepts from functional programming - iterators, immutable data. The only times I've struggled with rust is when trying to mess with pointer arithmetic and evading memory safety (e.g. trying to program a garbage collector for a Lisp interpreter)