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Structs are great in Rust, but sometimes I find them a bit heavyweight. There's a little more syntax than e.g. OCaml, for type definitions and usages. I end up using more structs (records) in OCaml as a result. rust-analyzer has "convert tuple to named struct", which helps.

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

Compile times of 30-60 seconds are particularly challenging: they're too short to do something else, but too long to get into a flow state. I find music helps avoid context switching at least.