Learning C first would help you understand low level code, that much is true. But it's also probably the absolutely least productive programming language curren

Learning C first would help you understand low level code, that much is true. But it's also probably the absolutely least productive programming language currently in use. Anything which doesn't involve twiddling bits or calling a function is tedious to write and hard to use. If you come from Python you'll have a shock when you see how little one line of C will get you. C++ and Rust don't suffer from this problem. You can go really low level, but you can also build abstractions and perhaps more importantly use existing ones.