This is fairly good advice, but I've run into a few cases where codebases don't "optimize lifetimes" and you're left with static lifetimes everywhere. Which is ok for some use cases, but it's a core language concept. One that is confusing unless you work with it some.

While the Rust syntax around lifetimes can be confusing, The Rust Book does a decent guide describing what lifetimes are. Reading up on Modern C++ practices and language constructs actually helps with Rust too.

The rustdoc book doesn't have a lot of examples of the full markdown support for documenting your code unfortunately. Browsing through std helps.

Cargo rocks, and it's easy to spin up a new project. One thing I did was create a few new ones just for concepts that were difficult to me at first.