[insanitybit]

Just to be clear, again, lots of people find rust difficult. I found it easy. Lots of people find it easy. That's interesting.

Saying "rust is difficult" is silly to me because... it wasn't for me. Saying "rust is easy" is less silly to me because for me it was, but obviously for you it will be more silly because it isn't easy for you.

You'll find that many in the rust community are in fact very very sympathetic to your view that it's too hard to learn.

[aussiesnack]

> You'll find that many in the rust community are in fact very very sympathetic to your view that it's too hard to learn.

I have not found that. The very comment I'm responding to above is a correction, telling me "it's not hard", not saying on the writer's part that they didn't find it hard, and least of all with any curiosity towards any dev claiming that they find Rust hard, because that view is considered in the Rust commmunity plainly incorrect. This is what I have found, consistently in 2022. I plan to continue with Rust in 2023, but I'll probably largely go it alone.

[insanitybit]

Well I've been around Rust since before 2015 and I'm telling you that tons of people feel the language is too difficult. Maybe you haven't seen that, but you've also seen a tiny fraction of the community relative to me.

Going it alone sounds like a recipe for it being very difficult. I'd recommend interacting with the community when you have questions, it'll be very helpful.

My only point this entire time is that saying "rust is difficult" is just as wrong as saying "rust is easy". Rust was easy for me, fact. Rust was hard for you, fact. Both things are true.