[steveklabnik]

The book is not designed for folks who have never programmed before. However, many people in our audience have never dealt with the stack and the heap as concepts. You can go an entire career and only use languages that don’t have that distinction.

[scott_s]

As someone who has been interested in Rust for a long time but has only in the past few weeks had the opportunity to use it in non-trivial ways, which of course then involves lots of documentation reading: Thanks, Steve!