Rust is considered to have a steep learning curve. How much does solid C++ experience impact that curve, relative to languages that hide more of the internal workings?

• too-many-lists

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  Learn Rust by writing Entirely Too Many linked lists

  

I would say try to implement a linked list, fail to implement a linked list and try to figure out why you failed. Also LRWETMLL

• book

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  The Rust Programming Language

  

For me the (initial) cost of learning Rust was a reading the book. I'd recommend reading it.

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• CppCoreGuidelines

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  The C++ Core Guidelines are a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++

  

As Rust takes many concepts from modern C++, knowing C++11 or later and having at least basic knowledge of the C++ Core Guidelines is a quite big advantage when learning Rust compared to someone only knowing a GC language like C# and Java (and even more so compared to someone who only knows a dynamically typed language like Python or JavaScript). The main difference is that the Rust compiler and borrow checker basically enforces best practices from the C++ world.

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