[pzone]

> Forcing new programmers to be specific about intentions they may not even know they are supposed to have doesn't necessarily work.

Rust is not a good language for new programmers. Neither is C for that matter. You shouldn't start learning Rust before you have solid intuitions of programming concepts like ownership, scope and mutability.

[rat9988]

And thus the steep learning curve.

[smt88]

It doesn't make sense to assess the learning curve of a language when you're also intermixing learning to code...

It's like saying a plane is "harder to learn to fly than other planes" just because a beginner can't learn to fly it quickly.