Comment by cultureswitch

I'm a Rust enthusiast and really surprised to discover so many people are apparently trying make games in pure Rust.

I think Rust is an amazing language for building a generic game engine, but a pretty crappy one for actually implementing a finished game.

Isn't it basically standard practice to have an engine written in a systems-level language with generality, reliability and performance as the top objectives, and the game itself written in a scripting/interpreted language that allows very quick iteration?

And it can even in many cases be a pretty horrendous home-brewed language. Despite having people without the computer-science knowledge to create a good language (and yes, inventing a new language is one of these things that leads to horrible results if you just learn on the job). This structure will still get you there easier and faster than trying to implement the whole game in a systems language.