Rust (e.g. starting with the book[1]) will also teach you about RAII, generics, polymorphism, and ownership and move semantics... the latter two in a far more e

Rust (e.g. starting with the book[1]) will also teach you about RAII, generics, polymorphism, and ownership and move semantics... the latter two in a far more explicit and clearer (IMO) way than C++ too. That said, of course, without C/C++ experience, one won't have had the "fun" of the crashes and weird bugs that are caused by not paying attention to ownership in C and C++ (and, hence, I guess, the motivations for some of Rust's design decisions might not be so clear). [1]: http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/