That's a different subject entirely. Beginners should learn from resources teaching fundamentals, both primitives and patterns like abstraction/decomposition, using a simple language with minimal, incidental complexity. Once they grok that, my next recommendation is using another simple, but real-world, language like Python or Go with lots of code they can practice on. Read, modify, and debug. Then, with key skills, they can tackle hard stuff like C, C++, and Rust.

Pyret at pyret.org is a good candidate since there's a group called Bootstrap successfully teaching it to middle schoolers. That's bootstrapworld.org.

Far as Rust, Ill also note people exploring the language or doing quick-and-dirty coding can just use reference counting if they want. Rust supports that. There's a performance hit but that's probably fine in those use cases.