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Just starting off with Rust, this has been the best resource for feeling comfortable with the language. author @fasterthanlime (fasterthanli.me)

submitted 1 year ago by MonkCanatella to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/5850736

This is the resource I've been looking for. I'm working my way through the book but it gets in the weeds really early. It's all fun and games and then chapter 4 just hits like a brick wall. Amos does a tremendous job explaining the why behind things, in a more wheels to the pavement way.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea I can imagine.

I'm a pretty big believer in understanding the problem that needs solving before understanding the solution. I'd imagine that gets a bit tricky with rust because the compiler is just not gonna let you run the "problematic" program.

Now that I'm thinking this out loud ... maybe a good way to learn rust would be by using and contrasting it with another language to see what rust is giving you that the other language doesn't. Most are probably coming to rust from knowing a few languages already too.

[–] MonkCanatella 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Rust is far from the hardest language I've learned. That honor would go to C++. I'm actually really enjoying it. But I'd maybe compare to learning english. You can learn all the funky grammar rules, the funky spelling, the history that went behind all that funkiness. But it's filled with so many idioms that are just kinda baked in and not written down that it can get confusing fairly easily.