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Strategies for ramping up, working effectively and having fun when you're not using a mainstream programming language: https://morepablo.com/2022/09/so-you-re-using-a-weird-language.html

As Rust grows in popularity as a systems language, I expect that someone will develop a dynamic language explicitly designed with great interop in mind. C++ games seem to use Lua for this, and I've seen Java projects use Groovy. Are there any up-and-coming contenders for Rust?

Today I learnt that cc-mode in Emacs includes a demo of defining a major mode for a small C-like language: https://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/derived-mode-ex.el "a hypothetical language called C: (pronounced "big nose") that is similar to Java" :)