I don't think we need to go through the history of computing just to decide whether the MSVC Build Tools should be mentioned on the download page. Is this tangent really necessary?
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Will it be possible to bypass this step in future? Because it is the only reason why Rust is not on my system. I'm low on space and there could be many more like me.
Are you able to install windows-gnu toolchain instead of windows-msvc?
I've got no idea about how to get windows-gnu? My only issue is being low on disk space, if anything solves it, I'd love to give it a try. I'm not an experienced programmer but I think I won't be able to do some more in Browser Rust.
rustup default stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
And no, I can't remember that either, but if you just run rustup default gnu, rustup will tell you the full toolchain (<channel>-<target triple>) name. 
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