I don't see why you'd need more than a few months at most of C to get a general ability to guess what high level language functions will be fast and which will

I don't see why you'd need more than a few months at most of C to get a general ability to guess what high level language functions will be fast and which will be slow, which is the main thing people need that for. I wonder if they could just teach Rust first and jump right in with a language that has both low level capability and might actually get used IRL outside of low level drivers and legacy stuff(And suckless experiments).