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by nicoburns 1580 days ago
The Rust subreddit regularly gets posts from people learning Rust as a first programming language. I'd say about half of them have a good time of it, about half give up and are directed towards python. Plusses tend to be good learning resources, and a welcoming community (easy to ask questions). Negatives being the borrow checker and a steep learning curve.

I'd say Rust is quite a bit easier to learn than C++, while being a step up from Java and two steps up from Python or JavaScript.