Personally, I learned Rust with "The Book" and "Rust by example", I'm still learning it! My time never really allows me to be on IRC regularly. Point being tha

Personally, I learned Rust with "The Book" and "Rust by example", I'm still learning it! My time never really allows me to be on IRC regularly. Point being that if you can't get on IRC, I don't think it's necessary. And honestly, error handling was the most difficult thing to understand, until you start groking why sized types are required as return types from functions and that every function call up the stack requires its callees to compensate for all it's error possibilities. error_chain! has made this all so much better.