[raverbashing]

Great initiative

By its very nature, Rust is harder (than let's say Python or JS). It is compiled, there's not much runtime magic to rely on and low level is hard.

But thinking about this and trying to make it easier is important

[the_common_man]

What does hard have to do with compiled or not? Visual Basic was actually compiled and it was and still one of the easiest languages to learn ever.

[raverbashing]

VB compiled to a VM that was embedded in the .exe file

[pjmlp]

PCode was only up to version 6.

Version 6 introduced an actual AOT compiler to native code.

Also its older brother, QuickBasic, compiled to native code.

Incidently VB is now again being AOT compiled to native code, via .NET Native and CoreRT.

[EugeneOZ]

If you are looking for easy magic, Ruby and JS will serve you better.