As guy who has very similar background just like you: there is very little in Rust that will benefit your straight away. On the other side, you are going to lea

As guy who has very similar background just like you: there is very little in Rust that will benefit your straight away. On the other side, you are going to learn a lot about low level details associated with systems programming (mostly influenced by C++ in case you are learning Rust). For me the biggest win with Rust is the performance that I can get out of it, which is irrelevant in most cases. If you work on a problem that requires extreme single node performance then you can learn Rust instead of learning C++. This is probably less than 10% of the use cases people use programming languages for. As far as teaching juniors: I had great success with Python, yet, a lot of foot-gun situations. With Rust I am not good enough to mentor our junior devs, so we learn together. It goes very slowly.