> no amount of Python experience will prepare them for this category of memory problems General programming experience helps a lot. Someone coming to C from a

> no amount of Python experience will prepare them for this category of memory problems General programming experience helps a lot. Someone coming to C from a higher level language likely knows to read compiler output and warnings, use debugger, read diagnostic output. With modern C toolset, that experience will help solve 99% of such errors. OTOH, someone coming to Rust encounters set of problems no amount of programming experience help to solve. IMO for beginners, Rust’s learning curve is dangerously close to that of pure functional languages.