> it gives them too much control when they ask for it Rust gives you too much control when you ask for it, with unsafe blocks, cells, etc. C++ will stab you

> it gives them too much control when they ask for it Rust gives you too much control when you ask for it, with unsafe blocks, cells, etc. C++ will stab you in the gut at random because you looked at it the wrong way. > But no other single language is good either. I had Python for my CS101, Java for 102, C for 201, and C++ for ~202. This was a decade ago now, but even then I thought it was a pretty good track. You learn fundamentals of computation in Python fully apart from the hardware warts, you get to taste what the corporate monotony many of you will be faced with for decades to weed out the chafe, then you get a dose of cold hard reality when its too late to turn back that it gets even worse.