[krupan]

Came here to comment on the same thing. I've never been able to articulate this as well as the author did, and it is so true! Every programming language requires you to solve some puzzles that are just in the way of the real problems you are trying to solve, but some much more than others.

People have compared Rust to C++ and others have argued that they really aren't alike, but I think it's in these puzzles that they are more alike than any other two languages. Even just reading rust code is a brain teaser for me!

I think this is why C and Zig get compared too. They apparently have roughly the same level of "fun problems" to solve.