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Discussion on: Have you learned Rust?

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Danny McGee

The pithy answer: one does not simply "learn" Rust

The real answer: if by "learn" you mean have I reached the "acceptance" stage of my journey with fighting the borrow checker... not yet. But I'm getting there! I wrote a whole 400 lines or so in the last couple of days and it compiles and everything, so I'm feeling pretty proud of myself.

I've been working on hacking together a simple IPC pipeline between Electron and a Rust back-end as a POC, because I really love working with HTML/CSS for GUIs, but I want to be able to write performance-critical desktop software (image/audio editing, 3D, gamedev, etc.) without being bottlenecked by an interpreter or a heavyweight runtime. I'm a long way from being able to apply it to any sort of serious use case, but knowing that it's possible is really exciting.