[cultofmetatron]

if you haven't used rust, its definitly going to be new territory for you. The borrow checker doesn't exist in any other language and its an incredibly bovel abstraction for proving an absence of race conditions or memory leaks.

That said, its not easy to master. normally when I start learning a programming language, my toy problem of choice for a taste of the language is to implement a merge sort.

with elixir -> 1 day swift -> 1 day rust -> 1 week.

rust is significantly harder to learn that any other language I've picked up. including js when I was first learning to code. Its worth it once you start getting it in your head.

Anyways, languages evolve and go out of date anyways. As you know, sql is not going away. I consider it one of the foundational knowlege things. where it doesn't go out of date. I think the next big thing in the course is ML. the libraries might change but the math doesn't. Time invested in learning ml and ai are a long term value generating asset.

just my 2 cents