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As for concentration training vs mindfulness meditation, I do think there's a difference. Concentration is a tight single-pointed focus, while mindfulness is a broad focus on the present moment. I found mindfulness meditation basically impossible without practicing concentration meditation extensively first, my mind was too overactive to settle in the present without an anchor to focus on.
Think of your focus like a spotlight. Most people have very little control over their spotlight and it gets aimed at whatever is the latest thing to enter their awareness: a thought, a sound, another thought, a visual, etc. It's bouncing all around, all the time. A proficient meditator can more effectively control where the spotlight points. Over time, as the mind slowly learns to do this better, the stuff outside the spotlight fades and become less intrusive. This leads to increasing states of calm and peacefulness which extend even after the meditation session ends.
Anyways, that's why there needs to be support in WebAssembly for GC, because there needs to be a safe way to walk the stack (aside from the obvious JS interop considerations).
I wrote this comment in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12990976. My RSI continues to be totally gone (it's been gone 14+ years now, the RSI started a couple years before that), and I never even think about it anymore.
If you have RSI and you are reading this, please try to keep an open mind. Not all cases are the same, and fixating on/worrying about the RSI constantly is not necessarily the best path forward.
Rust is not really there yet for game development, in my opinion. Amethyst is probably the most advanced 3D engine at the moment, but they are having some issues with picking an ECS implementation, and it's still very young.
There are a few 2D engines, but they are also not particularly mature either. Coffee looks interesting, although I haven't tried it.
For something lower-level, there's gfx.rs (Amethyst uses this), which is quite impressive. gfx-hal is quite nice for abstracting over DirectX/Vulkan/OpenGL/Metal/etc.
I can understand the move from C or C++ to Rust, the safety guarantees can be compelling. And it does feel like a much more modern language. However, if something with GC like C# can get the job done, I'd choose that every time over Rust.