@mikelech I learnt C a long time ago, and it is my favourite language along with Julia. I think they fit together very well - C is much more minimal and closer to the hardware, but you are forced to get very intimate with memory structures & do everything with functions, which is very similar to how I program Julia.

I don't know anything much about Rust, but I find the zealotry a bit off putting, and it seems as complex as Julia, whereas C is very compact.