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Great post, I just started my rust journey

As a little tip I learned the hard way, for the harder or more unique topics in Rust it can pay off to look a little longer for just the right explanation rather than getting frustrated with the compiler's error messages.

Things like lifetime parameters and their placements were pretty cryptic to me until I watched a single video that made everything click into place. Once you got it most things make sense, it's just hard to find the right angle to look from. Plus having the search engine constantly bring up a town or video game named Rust when looking for problems doesn't help.

Do you have a link to the video? Lifetime parameters and their placements are the one bit of rust syntax that I still can’t get my head around :P

Understandable ^_^. It was this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QoT9fmPYr8 ("Rust Lifetimes" by Doug Milford)

Imho the great thing about that explanation is how smoothly it moves from the basics to the more detailed parts of lifetimes. That made it easier for me to see the connections to the rest of the language.

It will be fun! :) Are you joining some community or doing it alone?

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