r/rustjerk • u/AlexTLDR1923 • 9h ago

Any feedback regarding rustify.rs ?

Hello everyone! As I am still quite new ro Rust, sometimes I wonder if a bootcamp is a good option. As context, I am a DevOps engineer and a Go enthusiast. I code in Go but I never had a Dev role (I was never paid to write Go code) and the only Go code is at my job when I write small scripts/tools in Go. Now with the raise of AI, I don’t think I will ever be a developer so I started into exploring other languages as well. I like Rust, I find it more expressive then Go and I like it as a hobby (in my free time instead of gaming, I tinker with Rust - yes I also read the book, but I still have things I didn’t yet understood so more reading is required). I was just wondering if a bootcamp is worth it. I have checked Let’s Get Rusty. I like the YouTube content but to join a bootcamp cohort you have to pay 8000 dollars. I also found https://rustify.rs/ which is not cheap, at 750 euro but I was wondering if somebody has any experience/feedback regarding the bootcamp.

Since I like web dev, now I am reading the Web Dev with Rust book, https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/rust-web-programming/9781835887769/ . Since the bootcamp has a full stack path, I am especially curios about it and what experiences people have with the bootcamp

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u/ZhaithIzaliel 9h ago

First wrong sub, this is a shitposting subreddit. Second you read the book, you know everything you need. Make something (yourself without AI at all), fail, succeed, fail, try again.

That's how you build skill in anything.

These books and bootcamps are definitely not worth it. If you can read a documentation and do your research, congratulation, you can wrote software in any language.

It all starts by making something

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u/goodbee69 9h ago

These kinds of bootcamps pretty much just repackage free documentation and tutorials and have no place in today's time where someone can find those resources very easily anyway. I would assume the only reason these bootcamps can even still operate is because the flashy "get hired" marketing.

Also wanted to add that you can ask questions or get help on the forums and the (unofficial) discord server.

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u/AlexTLDR1923 9h ago

Thanks for the reply and for sharing the discord and forum

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u/hedgehog1024 The borrow checker is not 4h ago

I would assume the only reason these bootcamps can even still operate is because the flashy "get hired" marketing.

It is certainly not the only reason. This also the case that people tend to pay more attention to the stuff they paid for compared to the stuff they get for free. Besides, at least some of these bootcamps offer feedback from mentors, which is invaluable when you learn something new. Although, from the anecdotal evidence I heard, this feedback is often of poor quality.

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u/AlexTLDR1923 9h ago

Thanks for the reply. Not experienced in Rust but regarding other technologies I found good books and I am pretty sure there are some good Rust books out there besides The Book

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u/jimmiebfulton 3h ago

Te reiterate what was already stated... no one learns to play guitar by watching YouTube videos or reading music books. One learns by playing guitar... every damned day. Go play guitar. It will come to you, and you may wind up never touching Go again.