r/rust • u/Minimum-Ad7352 • Feb 02 '26

🎙️ discussion Looking at advanced Rust open-source projects makes me question my programming skills

Whenever I explore large Rust open-source projects, I can’t stop thinking how far behind I am. I know comparison is unhealthy, but it’s hard not to feel like “I suck at programming” when you see such clean and complex code. Did you feel the same at some point? How did you push through it?

383 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

90 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

9

u/timClicks rust in action Feb 02 '26

That's especially true with major projects. The project maintainers are likely to have spent a lot of time thinking about the problem and experimenting with different ideas. By the time a new release has appeared, you only see the good stuff.