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The book is just a first step. The really important thing is "how much work do I have to do to get a decent level of foundational knowledge about the language", which is relatively little for either Go or Rust (or most other languages).


> The really important thing is "how much work do I have to do to get a decent level of foundational knowledge about the language", which is relatively little for either Go or Rust (or most other languages).

I might have agreed with this before I tried using Rust's strings, borrow checker and lifetimes in anger. I had some real speed bumps with these even given my prior knowledge of C#, Common Lisp and C.




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