Curious what modern schools teach in Computer Science programs. I went to Salisbury State University 17 years ago, and we had classes on assembly language, system programming and operating systems where we used C, algorithms classes with assignments in C++, computer graphics, which of course also C++. My professional experience working in industry was primarily in Java, but also some C, Python, Ruby. Learning Rust was not without a challenge, but having a lot of programming in C/C++ in school more than 10 years ago helped a lot. My assumption that all software engineers who have university degree should have some experience in system programming.