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by nicoburns 1965 days ago
It is. There are regularly people new to programming posting questions in r/rust. Although even there most people encourage newbies to consider learning python first. Rust as a first low-level language is very common though. Lots of folks who are interested in getting closer to the metal but are put off by the idiosyncrasies and lack of guard rails of C and C++.