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Don't beat yourself up.

This guy - "I do actually know Rust, but I never learned how to use it. I just started writing it because I was born with an innate knowledge of the language, similar to how I know Java or Kotlin despite never having learned them."

My first words were "Dada!". This guys was "public static void main(String[] args)"

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There’s a breed of programmers around who just like making things harder for themselves, and are somehow good at it. It’s like being a competitive power lifter or something like that. More weight, more weight, and at some point you get excited by more weight.

You could also compare programming to riding a bicycle - almost anyone can learn how to do that. So, if you want to stand out, you have to ride a unicycle (=Rust) on a tightrope (=the Nintendo DS)...

Not only that, he's also a child prodigy, because (depending of the edition of Rust that was implanted into his brain at birth) he can be at most 12 years old? I am however told that the early versions had little to do with the current version, so having one of those hardwired in your brain would be more of a hindrance than help...

It's more like Rust 2018 was sent back in time 18 years and implanted as latent circuits into my head.

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