Views on learning other languages instead of Rust

I’ve got a concern: whenever you talk to colleagues or other people, and the subject of Rust comes up, they always say it’s a very poor language, and that I’d be better off learning C or C++ because those languages still dominate the industry. I’m not sure if that’s true. I’m learning Rust because I really like it – the way it manages memory – although I’ve noticed recently that the learning curve gets steeper the further you go, but it’s still great fun to read, write code and learn. What do y...