[maltalex]

I was in the exact same position and ended up giving up on Rust due to the opportunity cost despite having spent considerable time on reading the book and writing some toy code.

The way I see it, there's an infinite amount of things you can learn, and you have to optimize for whatever gives the most bang for your buck. That buck being time spent.

Rust is very intriguing, but that alone wasn't enough for me to keep devoting time into learning and continuously brushing up on it. Spending time on fundamentals and languages and tools which I have a daily use for gave me a better return on investment.