It’s so hard to learn a new programming language (Trying to learn Rust)

I've been learning Rust for the past 3 years. I'm on my 5th attempt and it feels like I'm just breaking through...finally.

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[xiuxiu]

Rust was brutal when I started — had the same experience of reading the book twice through and still not really grasping core concepts. It’s been like 6 months for me now and you definitely do get over those initial hurtles and some of the intermediate hurtles faster than you think. Definitely the most satisfying language I’ve learned and one that I keep going back to.

[jfredericks]

Can’t recommend Richard Feldman’s Rust course on Frontend Masters enough. He does an awesome job explaining Rust’s Borrowing, References and Lifetimes. I’ve tried learning Rust before but was bamboozled. Richard explains it all in a digestible way.

[jonathanmoore]

It's a little easier if you have c / c++ already... Else, it's hard... But... If you get there... Well worth it.

[johnwilliams]

Is a bit of a struggle making web apps with rust. To be honest where rust really shines for me is making games. I’m not the best programmer but writing games with rust really is a joy. I used this framework called ggez and it doesn’t seem so difficult.

[wolfymaster]

Dope. I've been doing the same thing. Don't anticipate rust jobs coming very soon but when they do, I'll be ready. I did the same thing with golang years back and only recently am I starting to see golang jobs become more advertised.

[vin]

I almost got the same experience, and it was difficult for me to do project with Rust because I couldn't come up with a use case for it. However, I am still planning to try it again and I think I have a very suitable use-case for Rust.

[programmercouple]

I can understand! Learning Laravel right now!! It’s very interesting but very different from the current stack we use.

[ramseybeing]

Thanks this was helpful! Ive also been stuck outside of a feedback loop with Rust.

[ManasTunga]

Inspired by your previous Deno and runst videos i had started learning rust, though i had made pretty good progress in leaning rust but unfortunately could finish the rust book entirely. Being a Js developer and having npm packages makes you supper productive that mindset also hinders learning a new low level programming language like rust or c++

[ArachnidAbby]

Rust always seems so intuitive but I'm trying to learn about it because I want to make my own language and I dont really think garbage collection is all that great. Rust also has a few neet features so I want to incorporate parts of it but at every turn I feel like I cant do anything without the language fighting me. But, I think learning about it will make me a better programmer overall, so I'm going to try my best.

[DiegoNovati]

I had the same problem that I solved writing my first CLI application to help me solving a simple repetitive task, and I continued writing more CLI applications to solve more complex tasks.

[cheebadigga]

Side note: "fetter" (ger) = "fatter" (eng), but there's also "vetter" (ger) = "cousin" (eng)

[matthwc]

If they had Rust compilers for microcontrollers that would get me into rust.

[mikegavrylov]

it is not true!!!! It is easy if you have IT background and understand how memory works.

[eleah]

Hello Harry, Is tomorrow Monday already? No telling what you will come up. Another kid? Another house? Another language? Review of setState?

[lukaswerner]

If your looking a non JavaScript HTTP server language, I'd recommend golang. It's language ergonomics are for http. Also the built-in cli lib are pretty nice.

[mauriciomatias]

Jajajajajajajajajaja Rust is a beautiful trouble

[rcarias]

That looks painful to code. Nightmares of C and C++. I’ll pass for now.

[Ollinho]

Not a big fan of Rust. Only seems to be good for low level/systems programming, for everything else there are much better alternatives.