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Discussion on: What coding language do you want to learn this year, and why?

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Matt 🦕

I’m really into Rust, I’m treating it as setting myself up for the future as it has fairly similar concepts to Scala so would be a nice jumping off point if I wanted to move away from #Frontend.

Rust was great to begin with, the docs are super helpful and it clicked after some trial and error. I tackled a medium sized port of a Deno / typescript library I wrote that does some OAuth type stuff - that was tougher but mostly got stuck around packages / folder structure than actual code.

Recently I managed to compile my app in GitHub as the first step to CI for my side-project, it’s verrry cool esp for a learning project.

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Andy Piper

Thanks for posting this, Matt! Yep, I think we've briefly mentioned Rust to one another in the recent past. Good to know how folks are learning about it (a friend on Twitter mentioned the Rust book by Tim McNamara, which I am going to check out).