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Flattening Rust’s learning curve

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452 points birdculture | 3 comments | 13 May 25 22:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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cadamsdotcom ◴[14 May 25 00:45 UTC] No.43979523[source]▶
Rust is wonderful but humbling!

It has a built in coach: the borrow checker!

Borrow checker wouldn't get off my damn case - errors after errors - so I gave in. I allowed it to teach me - compile error by compile error - the proper way to do a threadsafe shared-memory ringbuffer. I was convinced I knew. I didn't. C and C++ lack ownership semantics so their compilers can't coach you.

Everyone should learn Rust. You never know what you'll discover about yourself.

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noman-land ◴[14 May 25 00:55 UTC] No.43979578[source]▶
Got recommended learning paths? I tend to prefer follow along adventures via video.
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1. maxbond ◴[14 May 25 00:59 UTC] No.43979597[source]▶
Check out Jon Gjengset.

https://www.youtube.com/@jonhoo

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2. Measter ◴[14 May 25 12:00 UTC] No.43983461[source]▶
I wouldn't agree with that. Jon's content is great, but it's really not aimed at beginners, and some of his stuff really gets into the weeds.
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3. maxbond ◴[14 May 25 17:44 UTC] No.43987275[source]▶
Gjengset was very helpful to me as a beginner, and the "Crust of Rust" and "Decrusted" series are aimed at beginners, but mileage varies and there's room for more suggestions if anyone has them.