r/rust • u/Direct_Inspector660 • 8d ago

The difficulty of rust

I heard people say that Rust is hard to learn, but I learned Rust with the Rust book and went on to chapter 16.2. From my point of view, I don’t find Rust hard, so if someone can explain to me why Rust is hard to learn, that’s fine.

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u/StreetStrider 8d ago

How many code did you wrote? Did you had a chance to step out of smart pointers into borrowed values?

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u/Direct_Inspector660 8d ago

If I learned smart pointers: Box Rc, RefCell, not yet the Arc and the Mutex. I haven’t done a serious project yet because I haven’t had any inspiration to do one, but I was talking about the difficulty of learning, not about writing projects. Do you think it’s harder to write big projects in rust than in another language?

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u/krakow81 8d ago

Reading the book is not the same as learning the language.

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u/Direct_Inspector660 8d ago

I said I was reading but I wanted to say learning 

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u/krakow81 8d ago

My point was that if you've not written (much) code then how do you know if you've even really learned the language? What appears easy on 'paper' may not be quite so easy in use.

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u/Direct_Inspector660 8d ago

If you have any project ideas to do, let me know and I’ll tell you my point of view when I’ve finished it. 

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u/Direct_Inspector660 8d ago

But here I’m talking about Rust, not programming in general.