I'm saddened by some of the comments here. It's true that C is not safe. It's true you shouldn't be using it for large portions of your professional setting. It's true that these sort of libraries appear to be slapping a bandaid on a broken bone... All of those things are true, but you should learn C. And you should learn it well.
I wonder where we will be in as little as 10, 20 years. When the C dinosaurs die and universities stop teaching the basics of computers. Young programmers are being pushed away from the harsh realities of C (not to mention anything below C), who's going to be building the building blocks in the future? Who's is going to keep optimising modern languages like Go and Rust? That minority is only going to get smaller...
I wonder where we will be in as little as 10, 20 years. When the C dinosaurs die and universities stop teaching the basics of computers. Young programmers are being pushed away from the harsh realities of C (not to mention anything below C), who's going to be building the building blocks in the future? Who's is going to keep optimising modern languages like Go and Rust? That minority is only going to get smaller...