It's nice to read that someone else has had a positive experience with the zero2prod book. I'm working my way through it and my impression so far (even after reading the official "book") is that Rust is hard; I enjoy the challenges and the eventual realizations, but working my way through some of the chapters that involve implementations, traits, and macros makes me wonder: Would I actually be able to do this myself in a reasonable amount of time, in a professional setting?
I thought so too when first starting it, but I realized it's in-depth by design. There are a lot of tutorials that teach you the vague basics but they leave out things you (ostensibly) might not need currently, like logging and tests. In contrast, Z2P covers a lot of areas that are traditionally missed in such tutorials, and it even teaches design patterns for high performance web APIs. With that in mind, it felt like reading two books worth of information in one.
After going through the book, I've found that I simply use the same boilerplate for every new project, so it's more of a `write-once, use again` type of deal. In that case, I don't worry about the time it took to get to the point where I could do that reusing.
