People were learning C and malloc long before Python came along. You don't need to start with a high level language.

Rust does way more than "solve problems professional C++ developers have". That's not a fair or accurate read of the language. I think you're misinformed.

>You don't need to start with a high level language.

I didn't say that. I said you can start with a high or low level language. I did literally mention C in my own post as a decent starting point.

Rust however is not a beginner friendly language because again, the thing that sets it apart is that it aims to solve a particular domain specific problem of programming, which is memory management, in a unique way that means nothing to a person who has never been exposed to the problem in the first place.