nostr:npub1srcgh979ychudzrha7asxa7kvennpghghzzadmv5gcunfw5p72qs6xfms4 Rust mainly has one Big Idea, and that Big Idea is strange and hard to put it in words and the Rust community is not good at putting it in words, but if you can get your head around the Big Idea you realize the rest of the language* is relatively normal.

I still find Rust often *surprising* after I got over that hump, but I at least have a mental model for it now.

* Except the naming scheme for their string types. Cripes