[Junk_Collector]

While the article is a little sensationalist, I do agree with the point that the tangential tools needs work. The most frustrating part of working with Rust for me has been dealing with getting an IDE up and running to the point that I often just resort to Notepad++ and command line which switching to a different computer. If they had an out of the box IDE configuration that you could just install and go with little investment, I imagine it would go a long way toward adoption.

Think of it like the popularity of Anaconda, which is a just a collection of pre-configured available python packages.

[m3talsmith]

I find visual studio code the easiest to get up and running. It's just a crate (that arguably should be installed by the extension) and an extension. That said, it sounds like they know this needs to be improved.