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We learned the hard way with the Rust book that this is important: one of the biggest structural changes we made between the first and second editions was re-orienting the entire book around "how can we get to Strings quickly", and for exactly the reasons you state.

And yeah, the intermediate area is where things are worst now, for sure. It's sorely needed.

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I think the big difference between Tour of Rust and the Book is my example sizes were meant to be as small as possible to demonstrate one concept at a time. Most of the concepts require no strings at all to explain. Particularly through the procedural programming chapters.

Sure. The issue is, it’s something that people run into very early when they try to actually write code. They won’t go through the whole Tour before trying to do so. They certainly don’t with the book :)

Anyway the author should do whatever they want. I’m glad folks other than me are writing docs! I haven’t managed to actually go through the Tour yet myself, this is just a riff on the observation made in my parent’s comment.

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