> It took me 3 attempts to learn the language and 5 years for Rust to feel productive - now it's my preferred language for side projects. Go took less than a da

> It took me 3 attempts to learn the language and 5 years for Rust to feel productive - now it's my preferred language for side projects. Go took less than a day to pick up. This is the bit people keep overlooking (maybe intentionally). Yes you, polyglot coder who knows 15 different programming languages and has 15 years of experience on the field can learn Rust in an afternoon and do a flawless solution on Advent of Code with it while learning. But 99% of the people working in software (you know, all of the people outside FAANG and F500 companies) know exactly one language and have no interest in learning a new one, especially one that's really complex and full of fancy features they don't know what to do with.