Comment by hi-v-rocknroll

Rust ain't Go but anything Go has can be used as an argument that Rust should try to do better in certain areas. ;)

Perhaps learn another language like Haskell, Swift, or Kotlin before Rust.

Get cargo-bloat, cargo-cache, and cargo-outdated.

Setup a memcache server and use sccache to accelerate Rust, C, and C++ compilations. It's not 100% but it's pretty awesome for things compiled at a stable build location.

Just like any platform, avoid dependencies wherever possible and use minimal crate features. Some Rust crates have an npm-like problem of dragging in zillions of dependencies.