I am fairly experienced in c++ and typescript. I want to ask the experienced folks how did you learn rust? Why do you love it? and What all challenges did you had while learning rust?

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There are many things to love in Rust.
<ul>
<li>Pattern matching</li>
<li>Error handling</li>
<li>Compiler helpful messages</li>
<li>Most bugs catched at compile time rather than runtime</li>
<li>Cargo and other toolchains</li>
<li>Memory safety without GC ( widely known one )</li>
</ul>
As you are an experienced C++ developer, you wouldn’t find any difficulty at learning stage like others who came from “higher”-level languages.
However, when you are coding, you have to accept rust way instead of thinking in c++ way. Rust won’t allow you to code in a manner such way that it leads to bugs or ambiguity. So you will face difficulty in development stage. You just switch brain to Rust mode and see how idiomatic rust does it
One of the book (paid book and I am not affiliated with them) highlights this “Programming Rust(2nd edition) - by Jim blandy and others”