--- title: Six months of Rust | daily.dev description: A JavaScript/TypeScript engineer shares their experience learning Rust over six months while maintaining a production game server backend. Key highlights... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/six-months-of-rust-1mrqwwqbh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Six months of Rust | daily.dev og:description: A JavaScript/TypeScript engineer shares their experience learning Rust over six months while maintaining a production game server backend. Key highlights... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/six-months-of-rust-1mrqwwqbh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1MRQwWqbH.png og:image:alt: Six months of Rust og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Six months of Rust **[Kitty says hi.](https://daily.dev/sources/kittygiraudel)** · [@kittygiraudel](https://daily.dev/kittygiraudel) · 9 min read · 70 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary A JavaScript/TypeScript engineer shares their experience learning Rust over six months while maintaining a production game server backend. Key highlights include praise for Cargo's reliability compared to the JS ecosystem, appreciation for Rust's strict compiler with clear error messages, the elegance of Result-based error handling versus try/catch, and the challenges of concurrency with Mutex/RwLock deadlocks. The author concludes Rust is a mature, performant language worth considering for backend projects, but recommends JS/TS developers start with small CLI tools before tackling concurrent servers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@djblackberry64** · 2 upvotes > This sounds reasonable. I'm excited to see what Rust has to offer as I explore it myself. **@khauma** · 1 upvotes > Very solid article. Many of her insights I have seen myself since I picked it up 6 months. I'm happy that there are others going through the same experiences as me. It feels like I'm actually progressing and not just treading water. **@judevector** · 1 upvotes > Learning Rust myself was one of the best gifts i gave myself last year, glad i took that bold step after leaving and coming back again **@nubprogrammer** · 0 upvotes > rust > >  **@arkmob** · 0 upvotes > I look forward to learning Rust but hearing that concurrency is dependent on Mutex/RwLock deadlocks is a little bit of a turn off. Given Rust use for backend software I imagined it included a more elegant solution for concurrency. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Dmitry Kudryavtsev](https://daily.dev/posts/dmitry-kudryavtsev-km5olll6g) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [What do people love about Rust?](https://daily.dev/posts/what-do-people-love-about-rust--sbnaygdii) · Rust · 131 upvotes · 11 comments - [Rust vs JavaScript & TypeScript: Performance and WebAssembly](https://daily.dev/posts/rust-vs-javascript-typescript-performance-and-webassembly-uaejhl6mu) · JetBrains · 51 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/six-months-of-rust-1mrqwwqbh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Six months of Rust","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/six-months-of-rust-1mrqwwqbh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/six-months-of-rust-1mrqwwqbh"},"datePublished":"2026-02-25T11:27:07.183Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T11:27:39.494Z","description":"A JavaScript/TypeScript engineer shares their experience learning Rust over six months while maintaining a production game server backend. 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