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Add link to nightly builds in first paragraph of Getting Started #10805

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# Getting started

The Rust compiler currently must be built from a [tarball], unless you
are on Windows, in which case using the [installer][win-exe] is
recommended.
There are [nightly builds] available for some Linux distributions.
Otherwise, the Rust compiler currently must be built from a [tarball].
See the wiki for [build instructions]. There is a [Windows installer]
for Rust 0.8, but it is not supported.

Since the Rust compiler is written in Rust, it must be built by
a precompiled "snapshot" version of itself (made in an earlier state
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API-documentation tool; and `rustpkg`, the Rust package manager.

[tarball]: http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.8.tar.gz
[win-exe]: http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.8-install.exe
[Windows installer]: http://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-0.8-install.exe
[build instructions]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-getting-started-developing-Rust
[nightly builds]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-packages,-editors,-and-other-tools


## Compiling your first program

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