Flattening Rust’s learning curve

As someone who learned Rust, bur mostly uses Python in the day to day, I don't think Rust has a language design smell. It is just a very strict language with some of the strictness out there to ruin your day if you try to program Rust like it isn't Rust.

What that means is for example, if you have high aesthetical ideals and try to write object oriented code you will hit a brick wall eventually. Why? Notnbecause Ruwt is a bad language, but because you try to write Rust like it is Java or something.

Rust is a very nice language if you respect that there are Rust-ways of doing things that and that these ways are more data oriented than you might be used to.

The strictness can be daunting for beginners, but with increasing complexity it becones an absolute godsend. Where in other languages I find errors only when they happen, most Rust code just works (provided you write it in a Rust way), because the errors will caught during compilation.

That doesn't prevent logic errors, but these can be addressed with the absolute stellar test integrations. Now Rust is not all roses, but it is certainly a language worth learning even if you never use it. The ways it mitigates certain classes of errors can be turned into good coding practises for other languages as well.