Rust is one of the harder languages for beginners to learn because of its borrow checker and strict ownership model, but it shouldn't take more than a month or two for a competent senior to pick up.

It's going to be deeply unpleasant and seem like a problem if:

You're writing dangerously bad C or C++ code already.
You've only ever used Python or JavaScript.
You try to shoehorn OOP and inheritance into it (Rust idioms are composition and functional programming).
You refuse to use/learn pattern matching.
You're a pedant about "pretty" syntax.

If someone is at a senior level and any of those apply, they probably shouldn't be at a senior level, though.

[–] onlinepersona 6 points 5 days ago

You’re writing dangerously bad C or C++ code already.

Shots fired. Must be footgun that went off somewhere.

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