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