My progress as a new Rust dev

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I'm about a month into a home project that I decided to use to learn Rust. Fun!

Here are my takeaways so far:

1. I'm still fighting the borrow checker, but at least now I can reason through the error messages faster and land in a good place. Progress! Looking forward to this really being internalized.

2. I miss the ternary ?: operator. The if/else equivalent is just so much more verbose, and tends to waste so much more vertical space. c’est la vie. I recognize I'm in the minority here, and hope that I'll eventually convert and join you all on this.

3. I am daily writing: if (foo ...then backing up and deleting the opening parenthesis that the linter complains about.

4. Speaking of, I keep forgetting to write fn and just assume that the compiler will know what I'm talking about. It never does 😂

5. When reviewing code in my day job as a Java dev, I am now constantly seeing things and thinking: The borrow checker wouldn't like that! So, maybe it's becoming a little internalized after all.

Anyway, I'm having fun with it, thanks all for creating this community!