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Getting started with Rust, installation

Let’s set up our Rust development environment,

Playground

You can play Rust online, without installing anything. Play Rust Lang

Installing Rustup

The recommended way to install Rust is using Rustup. It’s both installer and version manager for Rust

For macOs / Linux

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Using other OS? check other installation method here

Update current version

Rust updates frequently. Run rustup update to user the latest update.

What is Cargo

When we install Rustup, we also install Cargo. It does a lot of things

build your project with cargo build
run your project with cargo run
test your project with cargo test
build documentation for your project with cargo doc
publish a library to crates.io with cargo publish

To make sure everything is installed. Run cargo --version

Make it nice on your text editor

Whatever text-editor you use, make sure to install Rust support (syntax highlight or snippets) to make your experience better

Fun Fact

When you install Rust, it also copy the documentation locally to read offline. Try rustup doc to open it in browser (locally).

Want to uninstall?

You can run

 rustup self uninstall

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Fri Sep 24, 2021

This is a post in the start learning Rust series.

Sep 23, 2021 - I start learning Rust

Sep 24, 2021 - Getting started with Rust, installation 👈🏼 You are here

Sep 25, 2021 - Hello World in Rust

Sep 25, 2021 - What is Cargo in Rust

Sep 25, 2021 - Declare a variable in Rust and mutability

Sep 26, 2021 - Data types in Rust

Sep 27, 2021 - Function in Rust

Sep 28, 2021 - String in Rust

Sep 28, 2021 - Conditional statement in Rust

Sep 29, 2021 - Variable Scope in Rust

Sep 29, 2021 - Looping in Rust

Sep 30, 2021 - What is ownership in Rust

Oct 01, 2021 - References in Rust

Oct 02, 2021 - Slice data type in Rust

Oct 02, 2021 - Struct data type in Rust

Oct 03, 2021 - Struct Method in Rust

Oct 03, 2021 - Enums in Rust

Oct 03, 2021 - The Option Enum in Rust, null alternative

Oct 04, 2021 - Match control flow in Rust

Oct 05, 2021 - If and let in Rust Control flow

Oct 05, 2021 - Collections data structure in Rust

Oct 05, 2021 - Vector: collection in Rust

Oct 06, 2021 - Hash Map in Rust

Oct 06, 2021 - Generic Types in Rust

Oct 07, 2021 - What is Lifetime in Rust?

Oct 07, 2021 - Traits in Rust

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