I’m in the middle of working through The Rust Book, and I haven’t written any serious code with it yet, so interpret this through that lens. When I looked at r

I’m in the middle of working through The Rust Book, and I haven’t written any serious code with it yet, so interpret this through that lens. When I looked at rust code before, it all seemed a bit weird. I couldn’t immediately understand it, but I’ve since come to realize this was because the dozen or so languages I can read well don’t really resemble rust, so my pattern matching was a bit off. The more I learn about the syntax and core concepts, the more I’m learning that my brain absolutely loves it. Once I started to understand matches, lifetime syntax and the core borrowing mechanics, things clicked and I’m more excited about writing code than I’ve been since I taught myself GW-BASIC 25 years ago. Just sharing this anecdote because I find it interesting how differently people experience languages. I also have an ongoing friendly debate with a friend who absolutely hates Python, while I rather enjoy it. I’ve tried to understand why he hates it, and he’s tried to understand why I like it. And it all seems to come down to hard-to-define things that just rub us in different ways. I hope the benefits of rust find their way into more types of languages in the future.