Here I am on day three of an attempt to modify a rust program with logic that would have taken about twenty minutes to implement in C# or Java. It has to do with operations on strings (use a regex to find a string in some text, escape all the regex-reserved characters in that string, then use the string as a regex to find other occurrences of itself in the text) so I get that I'm really thrown into the borrow-checker deep-end, but man writing rust feels like working on one of those puzzles where you try to fit a set of tiles inside a rectangle. You'll almost get it but then some edge is sticking out. So you move the tiles around but this leads to two edges sticking out now! So you do a whole bunch of additional exploring before ending up right back where you started with the one edge sticking out.
I even abandoned the learn-by-stackoverflow-search approach to rust and read the first seven or so chapters of the rust book. But even that hasn't helped very much. I know I am just currently in the painful, frustrating stage of learning where nothing really makes sense, and at some future point it will all click, but it really can't be overstated just what a wicked learning curve this language has.
I even abandoned the learn-by-stackoverflow-search approach to rust and read the first seven or so chapters of the rust book. But even that hasn't helped very much. I know I am just currently in the painful, frustrating stage of learning where nothing really makes sense, and at some future point it will all click, but it really can't be overstated just what a wicked learning curve this language has.