After school, I was in some "advanced" schools for a better graduation. In the 11 and 12 class, we had a subject programming. From 14 classmates, had always huge problems and could not resolve a task without help. In this classes, all were about 17/18 years old.

I think it´s a good idea to teach children programming because for me it changed they way I think.

In conclusion, it depends. It depends on what language you want to teach and how motivated the children is.

The clear advantage is that they will be a lot better at logic and already have some experience. I know a person who learned C++ at the age of 10(!). He still is very young, but very good at it. Today, programming is needed for more and more jobs. Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Design, Art, BA, ... because with programming, lots of things can be automated and simulated and people can become a lot more efficient.

I do not think that we should start out teaching kids Rust or JavaScript, however I believe that there are and should be toys which help them get started. For example something like a puzzle, building blocks which have certain functionality and the kids have to place them in a certain order. They might be able to program the way a toy car moves that way, and it is fun, and they don't have to be able to read or write or use a computer in general.

Inspire them to want to code, and all else follows.