[fiedzia]

Absolutely. You can write some Rust by following some hello world tutorial and be productive in 15 minutes. That doesn't mean you'd be proficient in writing procedural macros or understanding all details of memory management, but I've seen Linux magazines presenting Rust omitting all those "advanced" features and surprising amount of Rust users is new to programming.

The learning curve is usually different because you will need to understand more before program will compile and because most materials aims to cover 100% of the language from day one, but if you want to approach it differently, productivity wouldn't be a problem.

[verdagon]

Just so we're clear, you're saying that Rust only takes 15 minutes to learn and be productive in, for the average person?

[fiedzia]

Basic Rust, sure. For some definition of "basic", and average person that knows some other programming language. What I mean is something along this line:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/getting-started-rust-wo...

It leaves many concepts without full explanation, but that's not necessary to do something useful.