Get started with Rust

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https://www.rust-lang.org/learn

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Apparently, this is the "official" way of installing Rust, Cargo, etc: https://rustup.rs/

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This is exactly what I want to see: https://www.rust-lang.org/learn

The language creators - and community - have crated a comprehensive book and set of exercises/examples
for learning Rust. So I, the "user" of the language don't have to fill-in the gaps.

By contrast, Chris McCord, creator of Phoenix wrote a couple of for-profit books:

The Phoenix book was almost immediately obsolete.
We bought 5 copies for the people in our company to read and they are door-stops now. Useless.
Each subsequent release of Phoenix introduces significant breaking changes.
Which means that projects are not maintainable in the long term.

For example: https://github.com/chrismccord/phoenix_chat_example last updated 6 years ago

GitHub thinks this Phoenix Chat Example written with Phoenix 1.3 is 92% JavaScript ...

That's because it was ... seriously, read the code!
https://github.com/chrismccord/phoenix_chat_example/blob/master/web/static/js/app.js
There was so little Elixir in the example it's laughable!
Over the years the amount of "Boilerplate" code and number of dependencies
in a standard Phoenix project has mushroomed!! 🍄

It's easier to scrap an old Phoenix App and start from scratch than it is to update it.
This is suuuuuuper lame.

Seriously, watch "Rust: A Language for the Next 40 Years" by Carol Nichols #4
Rust takes breaking changes seriously; it doesn't have them.