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In-depth walkthroughs of Rust solutions for Advent of Code 2020 by Amos Wenger (fasterthanlime)
I always enjoy Amos' writing, he does a great job of walking through topics in depth and explaining each step of the way. It looks like he's starting a new series to work through all of this year's Advent of Code problems, which will probably be a good read for people interested in Rust (whether you already have experience with it or not).
Only the first day is up so far, but the overall series page is here, and individual links:
I'll update this post with new links as the new parts come out, and possibly bump it occasionally.
Having no experience with Rust, and only having started seriously learning C++ this year (and not making it particularly far, at least I got past pointers this time though!) this looks like a really interesting language that will be a nightmare to actually learn. Having the return type after the function name is a nice change from the norm though. Programming language aside, this guy does have a nice writing style. The little q-and-a sections are sometimes a bit contrived though.
It's not that bad to learn. I'm devoting my holiday break to learning (my background is mostly JS).
The complexity is reduced by good tooling and smart design. I run a language server plugin on sublime text that autosuggests useful fixes for compiler errors, this removes a lot of the friction.