Without any prior knowledge of C you wouldn't really understand what problems Rust solves for you. Especially when never having worked with any lang without aut

Without any prior knowledge of C you wouldn't really understand what problems Rust solves for you. Especially when never having worked with any lang without automatic garbage collection. A quick dive into C is a good idea for learning. It is hugely influential and basically the Latin of programming languages so any knowledge pays huge dividends down the road even if you never use it directly. Whether you should use C was not the question. There are valid uses though even for new projects and if just for the few exotic targets that Rust doesn't yet compile to.