"People who say Rust is hard to learn have always confused me. I learned programming in this order: (...)"
(proceeds to list a quite rare and outlier-ish learning sequence, and all in non-scripting languages to boot).
Well, of course those people confused you. What you, who learned Scheme, C++ and Haskell before going to Rust, have in common with someone who only knows C or Java or only got his start in some scripting languages, so as to be able to relate with their "Rust is hard" experience?
I personally went from Go (slightly mingling with it) -> Rust 1.0 (wrote my first applications with it) and found it to be incredibly easy to learn in comparison to C, C++, Java, and even Python and JavaScript. Everything's pretty explicit and straightforward, and the API documentation and associated resources are stellar.
(proceeds to list a quite rare and outlier-ish learning sequence, and all in non-scripting languages to boot).
Well, of course those people confused you. What you, who learned Scheme, C++ and Haskell before going to Rust, have in common with someone who only knows C or Java or only got his start in some scripting languages, so as to be able to relate with their "Rust is hard" experience?