The amount of segfault debugging and managing memory is roughly linearly dependent on how much you pretend to not be programming in C but in an object-oriented programming.

Those languages give you syntax and/or runtime tools to get away with badly structured programmings (allocating / deallocating stuff like mad, lots of implicit behaviour). C is not like that. It wants you to think and learn how to structure programs (this is transferable knowledge, i.e. it gets much better with time).