[Skalman]

For me the hump was from the get-go.

Following the book, I installed Rust directly, but then i realized that I should've installed it via Rustup. Next, I want a good editing environment, so I install VS Code and Racer, but then I find out that I can't use Clippy unless I use Nightly... and I'm not interested in using Nightly, so I'll wait.

[steveklabnik]

Rustup has been in beta for a while, which is why we don't recommend it in the book. Soon though!

[sidlls]

I just installed the nightly tarball and used my usual editor (emacs). I'm not sure what the editing environment has to do with a learning hump.

Now, coming from loose dynamic typed languages or really terrible C or C++ code bases is another matter.