These deep changes with pointers holds me back to try out rust. Last I checked rust was a week ago, none of the pointer related documentation or examples were compatible with the head revision. Putting energy of the released version felt bad as that will break soon but head is not that useful without documentation. The same goes since summer, I'm looking for a stable codebase with documentation and base libraries.
If you're looking for a stable language you shouldn't use Rust right now. The language is still changing every few days.
If you have a bit more time to spend it's fun, though -- I spent a lot of time in the IRC channel. The people in #rust are really helpful and will answer all your pointer questions.
