I agree with what other posters say here regarding building, specifically, C knowledge first. Further, I've noticed a trend highlighted by people such as Jonat

I agree with what other posters say here regarding building, specifically, C knowledge first. Further, I've noticed a trend highlighted by people such as Jonathan Blow that there are users of Rust who don't fully understand object lifetimes in particular systems and are hacking around warnings in Rust creating unsafe memory scenarios while being told otherwise because all of their compiler messages have disappeared. Some things in software engineering are hard, but you can't escape them. It seems like you can only defer the problem until you actually need to understand what's going on, and by the time you realize that, you'll be deep in experience with "weird holes" in your knowledge (as I fondly remember a (pre-?)algebra teacher telling me when I was discussing quaternions in middle school.)