[LawnGnome]

Same. I gradually learned Rust while I was working in a job where I wrote C on a day-to-day basis, and after a while I realised that Rust was making me a better C developer by forcing me to think more systematically about ownership and lifetimes than I really had to that point. It significantly changed how I designed and structured my code, even in other languages.

Not to say I couldn't have gotten the same education from another language, but something about Rust clicked for me that others didn't.