maybe a few months to really "get" the language/ internalize the borrow checker. No one is saying it's super hard (assuming you are an OK programmer) just that

maybe a few months to really "get" the language/ internalize the borrow checker. No one is saying it's super hard (assuming you are an OK programmer) just that it takes a month or three of actively working with it to wrap your brain around it, which you seem to agree with. I'd say that my experience with Python was similar I've had colleagues (that aren't programmers) who taught themselves just enough python to be productive with writing Python scripts that solved real problems while knowing maybe 20% of the language. Rust will not let you get away with learning only the very basics like that. They have no idea what a list comprehension or function decorator is, hell most of them have probably never typed the word "class" into a script. In Python that doesn't matter, you can get very far with just basic data types, functions, for loops and cutting and pasting from random web sites.