You're not starting at zero. You have proficiency in other languages and are probably good at them! It's often about getting to a point where you're used to ca

You're not starting at zero. You have proficiency in other languages and are probably good at them! It's often about getting to a point where you're used to cargo/Rust borrow checker stuff/etc. Removing the lifetime syntax stuff makes it much easier to transpose your existing knowledge and rapidly get up to speed.