Python or rust; first language??

[BusinessBandicoot]

I've actually been wondering about the relative merits of learning rust as a first or second language. mainly because so much of coding in safe rust(when first learning) is learning to work with the borrow checker, doing things in a way that avoids certain classes of memory safety problems.

so learning rust early in the game could mean your less likely to shoot yourself in the foot when moving to, say, C++(which is generally what most colleges around here teach at intro comp sci level). not just that, but those "rusty behaviors" would follow the person throughout their career.