A Survey of Rust Embeddable Scripting Languages (opens in new tab)

Rust is a nice programming language. But it's only ever compiled, so if you want behavior that can be edited at runtime, you have to either anticipate and implement every single knob you think might need adjusting or let users write code in some other language that you then call from Rust. Lua is (to my knowledge) the most common language for this use case in general, but I don't really like using Lua all that much, so let's take a more comprehensive look at some of our options.