First of all, disagreeing with someone's assessment of learning difficulty isn't something that should deserve downvotes at all. And then I've been working in

First of all, disagreeing with someone's assessment of learning difficulty isn't something that should deserve downvotes at all. And then I've been working in Rust with beginner and mentoring them while they learned Rust, and I can assure you that the difficult part that most people struggle with is just half a days of learning actually[1]. Then you put in practice with exercises, to familiarize yourself with the syntax and the std lib, for a few days and you're ready to code. The difficulty is to overcome the first step of assimilating concepts, that you need to unlock the next steps. If you skip the concept phase, then you can remain confused for a while I guess. [1]: I've just check my slide deck, Ownership + Borrowing + Arc/Rc + RefCell/Mutex + Lifetimes + Send + Sync, the entire package of Rust hardcore concept that everybody struggles with, fits in 63 slides, with the exercises, and I usually cover it in half a day. And it's accessible to pretty much everyone without prior Rust or C++ experience. I even re-explain what a thread and what the heap are.