[collinvandyck76]

> Maybe once that relearning has occurred you can move faster

This has been my experience. I have about a year of rust experience under my belt, working with an existing codebase (~50K loc). I started writing the toy/throwaway programs i normally write, now in rust instead of go halfway through this stretch. Hard to say when it clicked, maybe about 7-8 months through this experience, so that i didn't struggle with the structure of the program and the fights with the borrow checker, but it did to the point where i don't really have to think about it much anymore.

[guitarbill]

I have a similar experience. Was drawn to Rust not because of performance or safety (although it's a big bonus), but because of the tooling and type system. Eventually, it does get easier. I do think that's a poor argument, kind of like a TV show that gets better in season 2. But I can't discount that it's been much nicer to maintain these tools compared to Python. Dependency version updates are much less scary due to actual type checking.