Verbosity compared to C?

Only in extra syntax constructs.

But Rust can absolutely do the same thing as C in fewer lines, especially when comparing each's standard features like string support.

I absolutely despise that C convention if abbreviating absolutely every single thing as much as possible. Yeah yeah, that was necessary back in the day when memory was scarce and editors were awful, but come on those days were almost half a century ago by now.

Rust may be verbose, but at least you can read it without turning into a cynical greybeard subject matter expert first.