Offtopic: I'm currently indulging myself in clojure but as I only know dynamic high-level languages I am also a bit curious about low-level stuff. For someone

Offtopic: I'm currently indulging myself in clojure but as I only know dynamic high-level languages I am also a bit curious about low-level stuff. For someone starting at zero, would you recommend C rather than Rust or the other way around?