You can use a saw to cut a stick in half, but you can also use it to create joinery. Learning something as complex as joinery -- and doing it well -- is necessa

You can use a saw to cut a stick in half, but you can also use it to create joinery. Learning something as complex as joinery -- and doing it well -- is necessarily going to take some time... even though you could probably teach an ape to use a saw. Different learning resources have different goals. This is a book that is meant to be comprehensive, but also provides two different ways to approach learning the language. The target audience of this book was never intended to be someone who only wants to devote 20 lines of effort to learning a programming language. If that's what you want, read http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/rust/ http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/rust/ Edit: But when you realize you can't grok language semantics like borrow checking or sum types for results, you might have to spend more than 20 lines of code to understand the usage and benefits of those concepts. This is when you move from sawing to joinery.