Learning Rust

I have always had an interest in programming languages and concepts, mostly related to systems programming. That’s pretty much why I studied computer science. Even if I have never been employed as a programmer, I have created and contributed to several bigger projects during my time as a researcher (e.g., WayWise is a more recent open one). My goto language is C++ (11 or later), often paired with the Qt framework. Having worked with safety-critical systems during the last years, I have often thought that it is far too easy to introduce hard-to-debug bugs in C++ if you do not enforce certain rules (say MISRA C++) and wondered about alternatives.