Sounds like you got annoyed trying to learn something new, quit, and decided it's not worth your time. When people tell you it takes a few weeks to get the hang of rust they aren't kidding. Most people aren't the exception to that, but once you do get it, it's really great... Not kidding about that either...
I think I spent about two months. You're right, I do resent the time I spent on it. In a way I'd like to warn others.
The turning point came for me when talking to someone using rust pretty much since it first came out. He basically said "yeah, I still don't know why it doesn't compile either sometimes". He's smarter than me, and all he's managed to do in years of learning it is have a knack for fixing errors without understanding them.
I need some brain capacity left over for actually solving a problem.
