You will probably need to acknowledge their existence, but the good news is they're quite a bit easier to use than C and there are far fewer foot guns (i.e. no pointer arithmetic or any such thing). They also deference automatically so they're more ergonomic to write (i.e. you can call functions on a pointer as if it was a normal struct value, and there is no "." vs. "->" distinction like in C-family languages).

I'd suggest just getting in and trying to write some. It'll take a little bit of playing around, but the language is quite intuitive and I'd expect that you'd figure it out pretty quickly.