Rust is a fantastic language for game dev. It just requires you to think completely differently if you want to have a good time. You can totally write the traditional game loop or my preference ECS (bevy as one example). ECS still let’s you do the crazy mutations without having to worry about ownership. Each system can focus on the components they care about and you can specify the order they run. If you want to be reckless and mutate global state, then you need to explicitly decide between things like RwLock<T> and RefCell<T> for example. I’m not saying everyone should drop whatever they prefer to instead use rust. It’s ok to stick with what you know or enjoy. Good games are agnostic to the tools used to make them. I just don’t think Rust deserves to be dismissed the way your statement does.

Quite the family member you got. At the very least hopefully you’ve gotten your family to shun them or something regardless of their “legal rights”. Drives me nuts seeing “idea people” exploiting the actual effort and talent it takes to implement it.

Since she “closed shop” is she running around trying to sell the software you made or is it just rotting away because her ego won’t let you try to make something of it?

Curious but were you paid for it? I’m no lawyer but I can’t imagine that holding up unless she paid you for it. Even then, without an explicit contract, there’s probably a lot of gray area this falls into because you could have just been offering a service that’s utilizing something you made.