The last week or so I've made a commitment to myself to learn Rust. I've made a couple attempts over the last five years or so and have made progress here and there, but never had a project to work on. I'd make my way through the book, and write a couple little things and that was it. There was huge gaps where I wouldn't write any Rust. Then I would go back and it was just like learning all over again.

This time I am going to keep it up. I am making my way through the book again, I've gone through all of Rustlings, listening to The New Rustacean Podcast, and I've started working on a CLI project that will help me use the things I am learning from all the resources.

Rust is not easy to learn for me. I've been programming for over twenty years now, and have picked up multiple languages along the way, but Rust is very different (in a great way) than what I am used to. The community is great though and it's pretty fun to try something different.

The goal of this is to know Rust as well as I know javascript and node. It took years and years to get to that point. I don't expect it to be any different with Rust. I'm not doing this only for fun either. The ultimate goal is to position my career so that I am writing Rust full time.

This place is going to be used as my scratch pad. Sometimes I will write about what I am working on, or write out notes for things I don't quite understand. This type of note taking, writing, and editing helps me learn. Throughout the process I am going to keep a list of all the resources that I go through. I've already linked some here, but I am going to have a separate page of resources.