[bjz_]

Alas, I think a week is too short to give Rust. Go will get you more pay-off in the short term, but as you internalise the rules of Rust you'll really start to reap the benefits. Unfortunately being an experienced user, I'm not aware of a single online source for learning this stuff - I mainly teach people directly in person or on IRC.

[eropple]

Agreed. It took me about two months to really understand Rust, and I was coming from a background of languages like C++ and Scala. It pays off, though, for what I want to do with computers.

The rise of "it demos well so we should use it" is in a lot of ways troubling. The inflection point for productivity doesn't need to be "five minutes in" to be worthwhile if you're doing something that is, itself, worthwhile.

[AceJohnny2]

> Unfortunately being an experienced user, I'm not aware of a single online source for learning this stuff - I mainly teach people directly in person or on IRC.

How about http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ ?