There's so much you can do in rust without messing with any of that, and the only time you have to get deep in the weeds arguing with the compiler is _exactly_

There's so much you can do in rust without messing with any of that, and the only time you have to get deep in the weeds arguing with the compiler is _exactly_ the sort of code that you _should_ be spending a lot of time carefully thinking about. That C allows you to write that code without thinking about it much is _not_ a benefit to using C.