Reflections on Week 1: Rust's Minimalism Hits Different - Chris Woody Woodruff

Seven days into learning Rust, and I feel like I’ve been through a developer bootcamp with a compiler that doubles as a personal trainer. It doesn’t let you slack, but it does make you better. This week, I went from installing the toolchain to wrestling with immutable variables and puzzling over semicolons in return statements. As a C# developer, I expected syntax differences, but I didn’t expect the philosophical shifts. Let’s recap what stood out, what stung, and why I’m still excited to keep going.