cerement

depends on how you define an app – Freewheeling Apps likes to combine Lua and LÖVE to make quick little GUI apps

since you mentioned Rust, it can also be a matter of how you approach learning it – maybe learning a game might be more comfortable – as an example, Reddit’s r/roguelikedev links to multiple tutorials in multiple languages (with at least three Rust based options):

• Roguelike Tutorial - In Rust – also available as a book if you want something more physical
• Roguelike Tutorial in Rust + tcod – uses libtcod from the original Python tutorials they started with
• Roguelike Tutorial 2020

specifically, fried chicken is near universal

take a look at one of the “fantasy consoles”, can do quick scripts and see results immediately:

• TIC-80 – primarily uses Lua but they’ve added in support for Ruby, JS, Moon, Fennel, Scheme, Squirrel, Wren, WASM, Janet, and Python as well
• uxn – virtual machine using uxntal, a kind of Forth/assembly hybrid

for an actual language, don’t discount Lua – simple, fast, tiny – “real programmers” like to ridicule it, and yet it keeps turning up everywhere from video game scripting to text editor configuration to databases to web servers

• Learn X in Y Minutes – a good introduction to a lot of languages, gives you a good idea of their look-and-feel
• Rosetta Code – LOTS of languages with LOTS of code examples

work myself to death or die from starvation and exposure – very motivational!

“fingering the contract”

a few pundits have also pointed out that several of these tactics are considered standard-operating-procedure by modern middle management (like multiple, long, pointless meetings)

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

since Wired didn’t want to: ICE List – and they have a wiki

since Wired didn’t want to: ICE List – and they have a wiki

it’s not even a new problem – my parents told stories of people back in the ’60s building houses on the wrong side of a crack in Pacific Palisades