Man, that @rustlang book is immensely frustrating. Lots of "You can use X (which we won't go over until many chapters later)"
Introducing concepts that you don't explain just muddies the waters and confuses the learner.
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Replying to @rossipedia @rustlang
sorry to hear that. It's a tricky balance since Rust concepts work together.
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I mean, overall it's a great piece of work, there's just a handful of frustrating bits where concepts are mentioned with the assumption the reader knows what it is.
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Replying to @rossipedia @jntrnr
We worked *really* hard to minimize forward references; like, dozens of hours. We agree it’s not great but as
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That's immensely appreciated effort, truly. It happens to be frustrating on my part, as this is now my 3rd attempt at following along the book, sequentially, and these things stop me dead in my tracks :(
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I hear you, and sorry :(
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