Since I’ve been spending time learning Rust, I’ve been spending a lot of time googling around to find good resources beyond the stuff put out by the official folks. This put me onto a group of people who created a virtual community way back in the beginning of the pandemic: Virtual Coffee.
They’re a community of developers of various flavors that are all working together this month (Feb 2024) to encourage each other in learning something new. Next month is focused on getting job-search ready.
I’ve been to a couple of their virtual coffee zoom events and they’re nice folks. If you’re looking for a supportive development community, you may want to give them a try.