I feel this too.
Card board. Recovered cables. Recovered entire circuits of formerly used boards that fit inside my palm (#jewishConstraints) #Undisclosed parts of my how~yo (how drunk are you willing to get (to train yourself) (while raising a now 23 years old .... "kid" #PGurNOTeventrying #sry4urKId that is already "there"
10Gbps is old technology now and any real ISP can probably afford 40 or 100 - for hundreds of dollars per link. But they're going to deploy that on their most utilized links first, and only if their peering partner can also afford it and exchanges enough traffic to justify it. So the smallest connections are typically going to be 10. (Lower than 10 is too small to justify a point-to-point peering at all).
If you have 10Gbps fiber at home, you could congest one of these links all by yourself.
Now this is Cloudflare talking to aws-east-1, so they should have shitloads of capacity there, probably at least 8x100 or more. But considering that AWS is the kind of environment where you can spin up 800 servers for a few hours to perform a massively parallel task, it's not surprising that someone did eventually create 800Gbps of traffic to the same place, or however much they have. Actually it's surprising it doesn't happen more often. Perhaps that's because AWS charges an arm and a leg for data transfer - 800Gbps is $5-$9 per second.
Learning a first programming language is hard. And Rust will only make it harder since all you're going to do is debug compiler errors all day and never even see your program actually run until it's "perfect". This will be incredibly frustrating and you'll give up.
I always tell people to start with Python, JavaScript, or Lua. You can make something fun and interesting for yourself, like a game, and get immediate feedback and you can iterate quickly.
You've missed the primary point of the post entirely. Borrow checker per se is not the problem; it's the sheer amount of everything. There's multiple ideas of perfection. Those of us to have very much enjoyed ostensibly imperfect Rust of 2018 find this particular, current flavour unappealing. It may as well be capable tool in deft hand, however, as-is the case with everything in life, you cannot help but ask yourself THE question; is it worth my effort? For me personally, if I were looking for better C/C++ in 2025, I would choose Zig before Rust any day of the week (one exception being Postgres stuff, pgrx ecosystem that is really special!)
But then again, anything beats writing C for a living.
There's an example of this in my bio.