> This exactly how I felt the first two times I tried it, but I never really just dove in. The third time I just dove in. The learning curve is straight up, but once you are over (took me about a month), Rust isn't really all that hard.

I will say that the compiler got WAY better over the last couple of years.

The quality of the error messages went way up, and the number of times I had to do something stupid because the compiler couldn't infer something went way down.

To me, the compiler getting so much better was what finally got me over the hump.