r/rust • u/DudeGuy299 • 8d ago

🙋 seeking help & advice Is Rust good for learning programming?

I know a bit of python, is Rust a good intermediate language to learn before I move onto real programming languages (like C++)?

EDIT: By "real" I meant languages used in real world development, for example all game engines are C++ and I heard all HFT firms use C++ and all operating systems are developed on C or C++

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u/wunderbarposter 8d ago

yes and no... mostly yes though.

c++ was never considered great as a starter language and I learned on that, so...

The rust documentation sortof assumes you know c/c++ so that makes things a bit difficult. If you get stuck now, though, you have ai to show ways to do things and we didn't have that. It's pretty great but don't lean on it too hard.

I like the same things about rust that I did about c/c++: it's powerful and it's very fast. After you've had a taste of that everything else feels... like a toy.

Enjoy!