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You can't learn any language by StackOverflow, but some languages are more forgiving to people who don't actually know them.

If you don't really know Rust and in particular understand the borrow checker and how it works (and why it exists), you are going to have a bad time.

Rust in general has a learning curve, but once you do learn it there is a payoff. If Rust code compiles (and if you didn't use 'unsafe'), you can be pretty damn sure it is free of a long list of potential bugs including concurrency bugs, buffer overflows, null pointer dereferences, alignment problems, double-free, use-after-free, stack smashing, most memory leaks, and so on. The runtime cost of that assurance is less in Rust than in any other language I know, and sometimes the safety of Rust actually lets you do things in higher performing ways that would be dangerous to code in C. In C/C++ you have to knit your own straightjacket, and yours may not be as well thought out or efficient as the one the Rust compiler issues you.

I've really started to appreciate Rust's safety. If the code compiles there can still be bugs, but they're going to be higher up at the logic/algorithm level instead of the annoying sorts of bugs that constantly crop up in C/C++.