Yes, though I admit my choice is influenced by wanting to learn to be better at using Rust, not by what is best for the task I write C at work: to me Rust is f

Yes, though I admit my choice is influenced by wanting to learn to be better at using Rust, not by what is best for the task I write C at work: to me Rust is fun for playing with a more functional style. The type system makes refactoring easy when I mess up. The tooling is good and the answer to 'why is thing X like Y?' is rarely 'because of legacy'.