While the book is really top notch (I'm usually not a fan of programming language books), there's something to be said for not introducing all concepts at once. A scripting language has many of the same concepts, but not lifetimes, etc. Not to say objects are intuitive!
While this is true, those languages have stuff Rust doesn't as well. Take Ruby, for example: Rust doesn't have method_missing, or eigenclasses, or inheritance. "How do I know which method gets invoked" is much more complex.
Okay, I yield. I think you may be right. I've been thinking a lot about how I'll teach my children STEM topics and I've grappled with the idea of teaching Rust. One of the things I like about it is that you know the behavior at compile time, unlike Ruby or even C.
