not the OP, but i strongly disagree. you don't need to be an expert to write rust. Many of it's features are in a huge amount of other languages; parametric polymorphism, ad hoc polymorphism, type inference, etc. there's nothing new and groundbreaking besides ownership and lifetimes, from a language syntax perspective. it really just takes a little bit to get used to ownership and you're off to the races. the compiler helps you out in a big way with writing correct programs.

i also feel fracturing the community would be terrible. i came from basically a dynamic programming background (had done java and c++ in soft. eng. in school and that's it) and I had no problem learning rust.