[ritchiey]

I'd be interested to hear if anyone has learned Rust without first understanding memory addressing and pointers.

Although I think Rust is a better way to write safe code and the industry is right to adopt it, it seems like a heavy lift to learn about heaps, stacks and pointers whilst also learning about ownership and lifetimes.

I don't really think that C++ is worth learning unless you have to work on an existing C++ codebase.