There actually were quite a lot of changes. I remember using it in 2014, and then 1.0 in 2015, and found 1.0 to be much more approachable. Also, since 2018 wit

There actually were quite a lot of changes. I remember using it in 2014, and then 1.0 in 2015, and found 1.0 to be much more approachable. Also, since 2018 with non-lexical lifetimes and some nice error handling improvements, Rust now tends to be more friendly/ergonomic than 1.0.