The basics work pretty darn well from homebrew and Rust 1.5 (using the online instructions from the Rust homepage), the windows dependencies cargo is downloading aren't a blocker.
Should be a good starting point for lots of people. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this! I'm trying to get more familiar with the nitty-gritty of Rust (read: the borrowing paradigm :) ), and these types of tutorials are my favorite way of doing that.