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The trick to learning Rust is to first start learning C++; that way your motivation to learn Rust increases even further and you start getting the feeling that Rust is easy ;)

This is similar to the psychological trick of how an obese person, to make himself/herself feel better, stands next to an even more obese person :)

[galangalalgol]

Not just any c++, I'd recommend performance aware modern c++. It leads towards the functional-ish zero-copy lock-free thinking rust rewards. I've been told ocaml or f# programmers also find rust easy.

[IshKebab]

I think there are definitely aspects of Rust that OCaml/F# developers would find easy because it borrows a lot of syntax and concepts from ML. But to be honest those bits are the easy parts or Rust. Knowing OCaml or F# won't help with the borrow checker.

I think C++ programmers are probably the ones that are likely to find Rust easiest because they should be familiar with lifetimes even if they never really had to write them down.