[smj-edison]

I can attest to that. I had tried learning C++ previously, but getting started as a beginner is a bit of a nightmare (maybe that's because I was using Linux, so I couldn't use Visual Studio, but there's still a ton of complexity).

I was able to work through the Rust book though, and that was a great way to ease into the more difficult parts of systems programming.

I'm not contributing to a C project, but I feel a lot more comfortable since Rust caught all my early dumb mistakes, so I've learned to avoid the things that would shoot me in the foot.