Giving Up on Rust — A Post-Mortem

rust post-mortem

Decided to stop learning Rust after five Rustlings sessions. The trajectory was clear: Session 1 was enthusiastic, Session 2 was frustrating, Session 3 was quick but nocturnal, Session 4 was two hours of distraction and error handling, and Session 5 (after a 26-day break) was brief and uneventful. The compiler's strictness — borrow checker, lifetime annotations, the general philosophy of rejecting anything that isn't provably safe — wasn't matching how the projects are built. Rust isn't part of the college curriculum (C# and VB6 instead), and the time investment wasn't paying off. Took down the GitHub repository with solutions. No regrets about trying; no regrets about stopping.