It's deceptively simple. It's probably easier to write CS101 prime-number or fibonacci programs in C. Any nontrivial bit of software? You're going to have to

It's deceptively simple. It's probably easier to write CS101 prime-number or fibonacci programs in C. Any nontrivial bit of software? You're going to have to learn about undefined behavior and deal with it. Rust forces you to learn this before getting started. Plus Rust has a lot of higher-level (still zero cost) abstractions like Python which make a lot of patterns really easy to program. (And Python is _the_ teaching language these days) See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3mtwev/using_rust_with_ruby_a_two_hour_deep_dive_with/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3mtwev/using_rust_wit...