I get irrationally excited by posts like this one that put aside fancy features in favour of refining the "basics":

smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/bl...

Same for his "claim" post. To me, the holy grail is where my programming FEELS totally unconstrained, YET Rust saved me from myself anyways.

This gem from the early days but updated in 2018 reminded me of how far Rust has come while at the same time there is still work to do: medium.com/@GolDDranks/...