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Advice from one of the authors of Common Lisp on PL work: established languages tend to win in their domain. It really helps if you enjoy working in this space. (There is a ton of PL skill and insight in the smaller languages IME.) https://pldb.com/posts/scottFalhmanInterview.html

Today I learnt that Rust has an API guidelines book, with a ton of helpful advice on idiomatic style. For example, naming: https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/naming.html Readers expect `to_foo()` to do more work than `as_foo()`, which was new to me.

Excellent collection of advice for building CLI apps in Rust. It's really helpful to see opinions on e.g. should env vars take precedence over CLI arguments. https://rust-cli-recommendations.sunshowers.io/