Unless you're doing isolated experiments, it's complicated, because systems programming inevitable interfaces and coexists with C. So one will need to have a re

Unless you're doing isolated experiments, it's complicated, because systems programming inevitable interfaces and coexists with C. So one will need to have a reasonable understanding of C and its ecosystem (I'm doing this now). Moving from high-level languages to Rust is going to be a nice punch in the face :) Some people suggest to learn C/C++ but that ultimately depends on the resources available. If one has infinite time, certainly it's ideal, but with limited time, I think learning Rust will already be very demanding. My suggestion: find some small projects you find interesting. Follow the usual Rust learning path (reference book first, then find other books), and apply it to the projects you've chosen; after an year or so, ask the question again. Other small suggestion: don't start from book that pretend to teach Rust by learning another topic, because the amount of Rust that can be taught in 100 pages is useless (a lot of books pretend to do so). On the other hand, there are way more books to find fun projects/topics than there were an year ago.