My one experience with Prosody was writing a plugin to extend Jitsi Meet to show a list of the available conferences and their participants before you join (never got around to developing it beyond the prototype stage, but at least a deliverable that came out of it is a thorough explanation of how to use lib-jitsi-meet that I felt was missing: https://github.com/solarkraft/lib-jitsi-meet-demo - I still believe the feature to be important for allowing spontaneous meetups -don't you want to steal my idea?).

What the hell, I hated it. The parts I needed were super under-documented and Lua/their implementation of it lacks so many features normal languages have - I had to copy a lot of things together from the web to answer basic questions like "what properties does this object have".

To their credit the people in the chat room were very responsive and helpful; I probably should've asked there earlier instead of making sure I don't ask a redundant question.

How do you develop your Prosody plugins? Did I miss some obvious way to set things up so that it's actually convenient? I used the Docker Jitsi Meet setup.

And, while you're here, maybe you could explain the reasoning behind break-out rooms not just being their own conferences (or so it seems to me).