I wish I started with Golang! To me it has the perfect balance of simplicity and power. You need to care about types but only a little bit. Most everything you need is in the standard library. It can be shared very easily as a binary. The concurrency model is quite different than anything else but that could be out of scope for a beginner language. Go also has memory areans (in experimental) and generics so there is enough to chew on for the more advanced students as well.

I went from python and JavaScript to rust and now I've settled onto Go. Python really hurt the way I understand programming as a whole and rust mostly corrected that but is overkill for most things I do.