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A JavaScript/TypeScript engineer shares their experience learning Rust over six months while maintaining a production game server backend. Key highlights include praise for Cargo's reliability compared to the JS ecosystem, appreciation for Rust's strict compiler with clear error messages, the elegance of Result-based error handling versus try/catch, and the challenges of concurrency with Mutex/RwLock deadlocks. The author concludes Rust is a mature, performant language worth considering for backend projects, but recommends JS/TS developers start with small CLI tools before tackling concurrent servers.

Six months of Rust

Very solid article. Many of her insights I have seen myself since I picked it up 6 months. I’m happy that there are others going through the same experiences as me. It feels like I’m actually progressing and not just treading water.

Learning Rust myself was one of the best gifts i gave myself last year, glad i took that bold step after leaving and coming back again

This sounds reasonable. I’m excited to see what Rust has to offer as I explore it myself.

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I look forward to learning Rust but hearing that concurrency is dependent on Mutex/RwLock deadlocks is a little bit of a turn off. Given Rust use for backend software I imagined it included a more elegant solution for concurrency.