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I don't think it's a "git gut" kind of response. There are some engineers who keep repeating "oh X is so hard, I've never tried myself or even looked at it, but I've heard that it's hard". X could be anything.

If you are a software engineer and not a code monkey in a web shop, you should have no problem at least trying to expand your knowledge. I worked with people who're afraid of changing a line in k8s manifest file even after you tell them what and where.

There are some languages that look alien to the typical engineer and hard to understand without at least a minor prior knowledge, but Rust isn't one of them.