> Rust is not hard. Rust has a standard library that looks an awful lot like Python or Ruby, with similarly named methods.

> If you're trying to shoehorn some novel type of yours into a particular trait interface so you can pass trait objects around, sure. Maybe you are going to have to memorize a lot more. But I'd ask why you write code like that unless you're writing a library.

I think that you are missing the point - they're not saying (at least in my head) "Rust is hard because of all the abstractions" but, more "Rust is hard because you are having to explain to the COMPILER [more explicitly] what you mean (via all these abstractions)

And I think that that's a valid assessment (hell, most Rustaceans will point to this as a feature, not a bug)