I agree with sibling that "smart" isn't a helpful way to frame these sorts of things I think just about any programmer has the ability to learn Rust. The basic

I agree with sibling that "smart" isn't a helpful way to frame these sorts of things I think just about any programmer has the ability to learn Rust. The basics will probably come pretty easy; the syntax and general way of writing code are designed to be familiar to anyone who's used C-like languages Fully understanding it and learning the more advanced features may be hard, harder than other languages, but I think it's within anyone's capacity. I definitely find myself thinking harder about things when I'm writing Rust, but I don't think it's on a whole separate plane of ability > reading its docs and syntax I don't know which docs you started with, but just in case, I suggest you start with the Rust Book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/). It's designed to ease you in gradually, tutorial-style; much better than eg. starting with the reference and API docs