> I’m baffled as to where that reputation comes from.
It's a deep language with a mix of borrowed syntax(es) and designs. You can pick up Go or Python or Nim in an hour and have a working application, that's fairly unlikely with Rust.
I'd say it took me a year to feel comfortable with Rust - to the point where I could just sit down and write applications without Googling every five minutes - which is far longer than I've spent with any other language.
It's a deep language with a mix of borrowed syntax(es) and designs. You can pick up Go or Python or Nim in an hour and have a working application, that's fairly unlikely with Rust.
I'd say it took me a year to feel comfortable with Rust - to the point where I could just sit down and write applications without Googling every five minutes - which is far longer than I've spent with any other language.