Rustlings — First Steps into Rust

rust learning

Completed five Rustlings sessions over August 2025, covering sections 0–15 (variables through generics and traits). Session 1: 2.5 hours of cautious optimism, sections 0–6. Session 2: fought with enum syntax for far longer than reasonable. Session 3: 45 minutes, running on nocturnal sleep schedules. Session 4: two hours on error handling (Section 13) while distracted and restless. Session 5: 30 minutes for generics and traits after a 26-day break. The compiler's strictness was the main friction — borrow checker, lifetime annotations, and the general philosophy of "the compiler knows best." Decided to stop in December 2025. Rust isn't part of the college curriculum (C# and VB6, unfortunately), and the learning investment wasn't paying off for the projects being built. No regrets about trying; no regrets about stopping.