Thanks for the reply!
I'm interested to follow your journey on this one.
Good luck with both endeavors!

I'm very curious which part of your workflow you are looking to change if keeping the game engine and core language the same... Maybe FFI-ing one part out to Zig?
I noticed in the article you mentioned it was rust-analyzer related, but I wonder if it would be easier to use fyrox for the hot reload.

Major distros pretty much all have good current builds of everything you could possibly want.

If you're down to RYO a few to always have the latest, Gentoo has a lot of nice quality of life tooling around that built in, but also binpkgs for the ones you don't want to compile every update.

cholatey for windows is okay.

Dev for everything but windows native apps is MUCH more comfortable with WSL if you don't want to dual boot.

Just make sure the distro you go with is keeping the pace latest versions of the packages you use.

Sorry but I gotta say ArjanCodes is the GOAT for Python

+1 Steve!
compute-only-perf-profiling is the result of how well a given pattern yields its machine code (which so means accounting for compiler and/or runtime optimizations).
Compute-only-comparisons should argue patterns with all optimizations and prove their results in machine code generated.

Probably -lto so they're still compiling :)