People who say Rust is hard are probably skipping on reading the really well written Rust book. I'm not a genius in any shape or form, but I am able to write decent Rust apps just fine. I've written an IRC bot in Rust and am working on a file utility now.
It took me longer than 4 days (almost two weeks) to just read the rust book (part time), so yes you're not going to get from 0 to 100 in just four days. If that's your benchmark, how fast you can get going, then you're right Rust isn't for you. But nobody would expect anyone to get up to speed with C++ in just four days.
Rust is a systems programming language with a focus on security and performance, not a play toy for people looking to write small scripts.
It took me longer than 4 days (almost two weeks) to just read the rust book (part time), so yes you're not going to get from 0 to 100 in just four days. If that's your benchmark, how fast you can get going, then you're right Rust isn't for you. But nobody would expect anyone to get up to speed with C++ in just four days.
Rust is a systems programming language with a focus on security and performance, not a play toy for people looking to write small scripts.