>it's very different from other languages. That's intentional but also an obstacle.

It's very different from a lot of the languages that people are typically using, but all the big features and syntax came from somewhere else. See:

>The type system and the borrowing mechanism are good examples. Unless you are a type system nerd a lot of that is just gobblygook to the average Python or Javascript user.

Well, yeah, but they generally don't like types at all. You won't have much knowledge to draw on if that's all you've ever done, unless you're learning another language in the same space with the same problems.