I think I followed. One aspect of a programming language is how easy it is to build a useful IDE for with code prediction, navigation, refactoring, etc. Java is

I think I followed. One aspect of a programming language is how easy it is to build a useful IDE for with code prediction, navigation, refactoring, etc. Java is relatively easy, Lua is very hard. Rust is somewhere in the middle, with macros being a complicating factor. https://rust-analyzer.github.io/blog/2021/11/21/ides-and-macros.html https://rust-analyzer.github.io/blog/2021/11/21/ides-and-mac... discusses the problems specific to rust much better than I could.