Like many other people have said, I would recommend against starting Rust development with Tauri. Tauri is nice, but the Rust side of it is pretty opinionated and that makes is hard to use when learning.

I would recommend trying to write a bit more of a freehand project. Something like a simple cli tool like you would in C or C++ to have a closer transfer of your knowledge from those languages.

As someone who used LaTeX for many years and then switched over to Typst, I see no reason to use LaTeX these days. Typst syntax is more readable and it is much nicer to write.

Especially if you’re coming from markdown, I think Typst is the better choice. Typst syntax is very similar to markdown for the simple things and more advanced things are like any super high level programming language.