I hate to say it, but with all of the Rust rewrites we’re seeing (and going to keep seeing)
Now is the perfect time to learn Rust.
(especially lower level Rust)
Alternatively, you can do what I'm doing. I haven't bothered to learn how to write Rust by hand, because that's never going to happen. I've taught myself enough about how to read the language so that when I prompt an AI to generate it for me I can review the result. That's quite enough.