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Flattening Rust’s learning curve

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460 points birdculture | 3 comments | 13 May 25 22:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.01s | source
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ants_everywhere ◴[14 May 25 00:14 UTC] No.43979348[source]▶
A learning curve measures time on the x axis and progress on the y axis.

A flat learning curve means you never learn anything :-\

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tacitusarc ◴[14 May 25 01:57 UTC] No.43979923[source]▶
This is incorrect. A learning curve measures expertise on the x axis and effort on the y axis. Hence the saying "steep learning curve".
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tacitusarc ◴[14 May 25 04:00 UTC] No.43980661[source]▶
Calling it inaccurate was too harsh; my definition only became common usage in 1970, and the original “time vs learning” is still used in academic circles.
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1. nchmy ◴[18 May 25 08:31 UTC] No.44019867[source]▶
Academic circles? That's how it is just used in general. You're the anomaly.
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2. tacitusarc ◴[19 May 25 00:22 UTC] No.44025393[source]▶
To clarify, you believe the common use of “steep learning curve” means easy to learn?
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3. nchmy ◴[20 May 25 13:19 UTC] No.44041293[source]▶
I was objecting to your definition of effort vs expertise. It's quite obviously expertise vs time/experience.

This is described in this wiki article that was linked in another comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve

Which also points out how people rarely use the term properly, and call something difficult to learn a "steep" learning curve. It's the opposite.