To me writing C is orders of magnitude easier because I almost instantly can see in my mind the resulting assembly code generated by the C code. In comparison Rust feels very opaque (e.g. A simple writeln expands into a rather large macro and who knows what the compiler is doing with that). I'm sure with more experience you can get better but why bother.

Even with just static analysis and some sane coding conventions you can get C on the same safety level of Rust. I see Rust as a huge waste of everybody's time and resources and far too opinionated in many regards.