I’m not sure what “gnarly” things you tried to implement, but for anyone else in a similar situation, a good starter usecase for Rust is writing a command line

I’m not sure what “gnarly” things you tried to implement, but for anyone else in a similar situation, a good starter usecase for Rust is writing a command line utility. Crates to check out: - clap for command and argument parsing - anyhow for “easy” error handling - log + env_logger for logging - reqwest for HTTP requests (start off by using the blocking client) - serde + serde_json for handling JSON - rayon to “magically” parallelize your code (using multiple threads)