How? My impression is that they are not trying to do the language easier at every release. Contrarily, I see more new features added all the time (which is a good thing if Rust is your thing).
What I see is top-quality documentation. No doubt about it. Perhaps they focus on quality learning material, but the truth is the more I read, the more I scratch my head thinking "what is this construct and when and why do I need to use this?". Then overchoice[1] anxiety kicks in and I go back to zero, that is, my good old C.
I understand why it is this way but it is very much not ergonomic
The entire macro space in Rust (just like async/await) is in MVP status: they are available and useful already, but their current feature set and approachability isn't the end-state.
I know some will read that and think to themselves "Great! More changes to the language! See, they can't help themselves.", but these changes are about removing restrictions and tapering edges.
Macros in Rust aren't only confusing for beginners, because it has a completely different syntax (well, at least macro_rules! does; idk about proc macros) than the one you use for the rest of your program.
Even _if_ you draw the line between macro writers and users, you've effectively made macros a black box you're not supposed to look into. Having trouble debugging anything related to a custom derive or a macro? Too bad, macro's are hard. This is (a) not useful and (b) not necessary, as Zig clearly shows.
I think Rust made the C++ mistake of trying to accommodate everyone by having both low level control of things, but not too low level since that's dangerous, so we'll come up with some rules that you can't break, and oh by the way the rules aren't really ready yet, oh, and if you're not used to dereferencing pointers, don't worry we have this deref trait, what's a trait you say? and so on and so on.
It's effectively a barrier to entry, which, ironically, is a thing the Rust community tries really hard to combat.
If you mix a bunch of nice colors, blue, red, green, turqouise, purple, orange, eggshell white, you just get ... brown.