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by AsyncAwait 3400 days ago
> 10 minutes watching new users code in Rust will give you better ideas than 10 weeks thinking about the problem in your head.

I am not sure whether 10 minutes of Rust would give you actionable info, I mean it certainly takes longer to get familiar with the basics in almost any language, even if the 10 minutes just stands for a short amount of time.

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Things happen even in the first 10 minutes.

It's not appropriate to limit user studies only to people who are already experts.

But it's also questionable to limit them to people who are not, depending on what you want to accomplish.
I assumed "new users" implied relatively new users (before they grew to love the language enough to accept the downsides), not absolute beginners