Learning Rust

Rust learning path:

Start with:

• The Rust Book — Official, comprehensive
• Rust by Example — Hands-on
• Rustlings — Small exercises

Key concepts to embrace:

• Ownership and borrowing
• The borrow checker (frustrating at first)
• Pattern matching
• Enums with data

Good first projects:

• CLI tool (use clap for args)
• HTTP server (use axum or actix-web)
• Simple data processing

The borrow checker feels like a gatekeeper at first, but it's actually protecting you from memory bugs. Once you learn to "think in Rust," it clicks.