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What Rust can teach you and Python can't: - Memory management - Some functional, type-driven programming concepts (Python has functional programming facilities but not as many as Rust, although Rust isn't the most advanced functional language out there, either)

For other concepts, like you said, Python helps you focus on the concepts themselves better

FWIW (IIUC), python strings are closer to CS strings in that there are no 'chars', there are only length-1 strings.

[Edit: this is nearly pure pedantry; looking at the roadmap it's much more oriented to systems than to theory]

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