Rust is actually quite easy to use, that's literally one of its selling points. It's supposed to allow you to use nicer syntax than C AND also gives you guardrails to prevent you from introducing memory unsafety.
The guardrails make it harder to shoot the proverbial foot, but also to get code to compile at all.
Well, at least at the beginning. One becomes used to the so-called "compiler-driven development", at which point it becomes a breeze.