Ask HN: Is Rust worth investing in as a reliable C-alt given its recent saga?

I've been programming in high-level languages for a while and recently I was thinking about learning something more bare metal. Rust stood out as one of the popular C/C++ alternatives. But for me, the investment in a language is driven by not just the beauty of the language itself, but the community around it.

As an outsider who's keeping an eye on Rust, am I better off sticking to vanilla C/C++?