[hgomersall]

Rust is hard without a doubt. I'm suspicious it's really only hard because it front loads the effort over, say, c++, but it is hard. Expect maybe a year to be proficient, but there's a point long before that it becomes a delight.

Async is hard again, taking more months to feel proficient. I've again a suspicion that much of the resistance to async is due to people who have done the first effort to feel comfortable in rust and expect async to fit right in, but it doesn't, because it's hard too.

Threads are also hard, but under rust they better map to existing thread models, so pre-existing skills are useful and so someone skilled in threads and rust will be skilled in threads with rust.

For sure, there are missing pieces of the async world like async traits, but they will come.