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Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by wredue on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @10:10AM (#39616765)
I find quite a lot of friction in being demanded to understand all of the methods, what they do, when you’d use them, why you’d choose one over another that does a slightly different thing, but maybe still fits.

The method documentation alone in reference counting is more pages than some entire programming languages. That’s beside the necessary knowledge for using it.

Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by gary17the on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @10:43AM (#39617115)
I don't think it's necessary to understand every single `Rc<T>` method[1] to use Rust smart pointers to learn Rust. Perhaps try a different learning resource such as "Rust By Example"[2], instead?

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/rc/struct.Rc.html

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/std/rc.html