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So last year, I took on the challenge to learn Rust. My plan was to read through a bit of the Rust book (which I did), do a couple of challenges (which I did), and ultimately complete every single day of Advent of Code (which I didn't do). So I spent a good amount of time this year playing around with Rust, building a couple things, and just learning how it works. And there are a handful of things I’ve pulled from Rust that I now implement, or are at least cognizant of when I’m writing Java, or TypeScript.

0:00 i tried learning rust
1:35 Ownership & Control
4:52 Borrowing & Shared State
7:27 Types & Inference
9:10 Error Handling
10:34 Concurrency
12:28 Enums
14:38 everything should be written in rust

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Learning Rust fundamentally changed how the author approaches programming in other languages. Rust's ownership model, borrow checker, and strict compiler forced explicit thinking about memory management, mutability, error handling, and concurrency. These lessons translated into writing more intentional code in Java and TypeScript—using immutability by default, treating the compiler as a collaborator, making error paths explicit, and thinking carefully about data ownership even with garbage collection. While Rust's strictness can be demanding, its principles help developers write safer, more maintainable code across any language.

Why Rust Changed the Way I Think About Programming

real shiiii! its crazy how far you’ll go in a short period of time once you get to love rust

tbh, learning zig changed the way i look at programming

Rust taught me to be really thankful that I barely have to use it

Rust just keeps you thinking.** I love it