I don't think kids and C++/Rust should be mentioned in the same sentence :). I know some kids could maybe make it work, but those are tough languages with a lo

I don't think kids and C++/Rust should be mentioned in the same sentence :). I know some kids could maybe make it work, but those are tough languages with a lot of complications and no garbage collector to help out. Manual memory management would just be yet another roadblock. Again, I think the complex industry solutions are more harmful here. These kids don't need to make Call of Duty 3. They are more at the Pong skill level. A tool that is far simpler and far less featureful is superior here. When they get older and need to use Unity or Unreal or whatever, they can switch without having lost much.