Mastering Rust (#rustlang) Why the Learning Curve is Worth It

Yo what's up everyone my name's dave and you suck at programming.

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[ovehro]

I started learning rust by watching like a 1 or 2 hour crashcourse video on youtube and trying out some stuff. Then I jumped right into a larger project that I wanted to do. Built some stuff for a few weeks and learned how to use the language. But there were many things I did not understand. So I started reading the rust book and to be honest, it is great! So many things make more sense and it read really fluent while always trying out the stuff that was covered. It started to get really complex when it got into Smart Pointers at chapter 15. Smart Pointers are completely new to me and I am taking some time currently to understand everything. But for everyone who wants to learn rust I can just recommend to start just like I did. Have fun! It is worth it!

[EinSatzMitX]

Haha, I bought both of these books for Christmas and i just started learning rust. Thanks for the Motivation!

[MaximeFlamevideo]

I just began Rust and fell in love with

[conclusionforeign]

"learning rust was like learning vim" surely it can't be that easy

[pierre-lucrobitaille]

My first got at learning rust was a hard stop, couldnt get it to do anything. Tried it again for work recently and i had the most fun learning a language i had in a while.

[blzrL]

HUH? Vim's learning curve is like a couple weeks to get more comfortable than non-vim environments

[ScienceMinisterZero]

Rust is like vim, worth grinding through the learning phase.

[JTCF]

The rust boon is useful for the starter stuff, to learn the language you'll have to do a lot of practice and learning of what can be done, what can't be, why, and how to actually do it properly, and when to do it.
I think Rust accounted for 70% of my general programming knowledge to be honest.

[tehmoros]

I've got that book. I've also got Rust for Rusteceans and Zero To Production In Rust. They're all awesome. Just like Rust. 😊

[SkipaJenkins]

Me who is learning vim and rust at the same time ☠️☠️☠️☠️.2 weeks in and my brain hurts.

[joebuydem]

the C book doesn’t hold your hand at all. If anything it hope your know how to walk on your hands already 😅

[jeschinstad]

But how much of the difficulty was your established patterns? I remember having serious issues learning map/reduce because I kept thinking in terms of relational databases. If I didn't have that stuffed into my brain to begin with, I believe that map/reduce would've been much easier.

[echoexplore]

get ur inline type hints and ur lsp up, its not horrid, especially with an LLM to help (ask them why, follow up, what didnt u understand, work through the fix)

[nsonnson]

Would you recommend Rust for text processing tasks?

[tofaa]

I just cant justify learning rust now or going towards 2025 when zig exists

[jeschinstad]

I need to learn Rust because I'm implementing a filesystem and it seems wrong to not do that in Rust now. But I'm not looking forward to it.

[itsnotokgolf]

how does it take anyone that long unless they are brand new to programming

[roccandrew]

Unfortunately we don't have a year anymore. AI taking our jobs during those six months of learning curve 😪

[greyfade]

If you think Rust, is good, look at Pony.
If you think Rust is safe, Pony will show you the error of your ways.

[theoriginyt]

Learning Rust is like learning Emacs or tasting meth... you want MORE