There appears to be lots of enthusiasm about Rust - I'll probably learn it, but I'm trying to learn a higher level language (believe it or not, I don't know any

There appears to be lots of enthusiasm about Rust - I'll probably learn it, but I'm trying to learn a higher level language (believe it or not, I don't know any "high level" "modern" languages, because I figuratively spent my last 10 years in a hole).