I decided to adventure myself in Tauri development for a personal project, I read the entire Rust official book and followed the exercises. When I first started developing it was like if nothing I learned helped for real life projects.
Now after getting betting up every single time I touch my project, it seems I’m catching things slowly.
But I’ve never seen such a hard modern language, I used C and C++ before and it’s incomparable.
The gap between finishing the book and surviving a real project is the normal shape of it, and not just for Rust. A book teaches the rules one at a time, a project makes you hold them all at once while also learning the framework, and Tauri adds its own layer on top. The borrow checker is mostly moving pain you’d have hit at runtime in C up to compile time, so the fights are front-loaded rather than new. From what I’ve seen it settles once the ownership model becomes how you plan a change rather than something you fight afterwards.