You will never be a real rust project. You have no compile time memory safety, you have no borrow checker, you have no unsafe blocks. You are a C project twisted by The Fil into a crude mockery of technology's perfection. All the “memory validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your Source people mock you. Real rust users are disgusted and ashamed of you, your "programmers” laugh at your ghoulish code behind closed repos. Computer enthusiasts are utterly repulsed by you. Decades of compiler evolution have allowed them to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even C-rannies who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to rusters. Your segfault is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a dynamic link at home with you, he’ll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your diseased, infected unsafe null ptr. You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake fil-c every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight. Eventually it’ll be too much to bear – you will stop running, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your coder will find you, memory leaked, but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your "safe C compiler", and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a legacy codebase is buried there. Your executable will decay and go back to the source, and all that will remain of your legacy is a garbage collector that is unmistakably runtime. This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.

Can any of the smart cookies here tell me where to get started with learning C?