Rust TutorialLesson 3Free preview

Rust Get Started

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Summary

This lesson guides Rust's installation steps and use of its official toolchain. Readers are introduced to rustup to manage the compiler version as well as cargo as a versatile build tool and package manager. Beginners will learn to create and run the first Rust project using a terminal.

Key points

Rust is the official installer and manager of the Rust toolchain.
Cargo is a very reliable built-in system and package manager.
The 'cargo new' command creates a new project directory structure automatically
The 'cargo run' command compiles and executes the application

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