cognitive psychology. PhD 
I train Rust since 4 years (Meetup, Hack & Learn and actually as a paid trainer for 3 years now) and I _hate_ it when people bring up "learnability" in language RFCs. Most of the time, it's a bit of anecdata, scrapped together.
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(Just downloaded the paper for flight reading) I'm slightly puzzled from that statement. Most sciences have a teaching/education branch, which CS is notably missing. I honestly think we need more rigorous studies to improve the state of our intuitions.
One factor here is the lack of separation between practitioners and educators. The people at CERN probably aren't thinking about learnability when they built LHC, but there's a separate community thinking about how to most effectively teach physics. They work separately.
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By contrast in CS, practitioners (e.g. people building the Rust compiler) totally have to care about learnability. It's intrinsically tied to the adoption of their work. So we can't have education be a separate branch that does its own thing.
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FWIW, CS education is definitely a burgeoning research area. There are a number of venues explicitly for CS education (SIGCSE, ICER), and although most of it is teachers reporting on their experiences, there's a growing body of more rigorous research (e.g. Andy Ko, Kathi Fisler).
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