miniblog.

I've been compilation buffers in Emacs recently and I really appreciate the error and warning counts shown in the modeline. I've added the equivalent feature to deadgrep: it shows result counts! Really useful when you're doing big refactorings. https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep

ASTs typically discard comments, and that's usually what you want. The only time (AFAICS) that preserving comments is useful is for writing a code formatter. Could you write a formatter in terms of a list of lexemes? A CST is a non-trivial bit of code for one use case.

Coming from JS or Python, imports in Rust feel weird. They're entirely optional aliases for fully qualified symbols, which are always available. I don't know of many other languages where you can just start using libraries. Java is the only one I can think of.