The parent commenter is an example of a beginner programmer who found it very hard to start with Rust as a first language. I believe he's typical because as he

The parent commenter is an example of a beginner programmer who found it very hard to start with Rust as a first language. I believe he's typical because as he said, you need to know A LOT of things in Rust to get even very simple things done, unlike "easier" languages like Python and JavaScript.