@nixCraft I'm not sure how often you get this question asked by somebody that already has a job offer for developing without even knowing how to code. I never once saw that.
For all other instances, that question is valid, simply because there are quite a lot of languages you can get paid for.
Also, while you can get paid developing Rust or C++, I would certainly not recommend that as a first language, unless you want to make somebodies learning unnecessarily hard.
All in all, 3/10 answer.