Day 1 - 1/2/2023
Modern systems programming language focusing on safety, speed and concurrency. Accomplishes these goals by being memory safe without using garbage collection.
Rust editions
Backport using cargo --edition, cargo fix can help on code base migration
- Rust 2015 (May) - stability without stagnation
- Do not have async or await keywords
- Rust 2018
- Rust 2021 (latest) - 1.56.0 - RFC #3085
Current version used:
$ cargo version
cargo 1.66.0 (d65d197ad 2022-11-15)
Tools and binaries
Install Rust on ~/.cargo with the following command
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
Shell configuration is already made, toolchain management is made via rustup (i.e. gimme or pyenv)
cargo (pkg manager) is the tool responsible to manage projects, install dependencies, run tests, etc.
cargo --help
Some common cargo commands are (see all commands with --list):
build, b Compile the current package
check, c Analyze the current package and report errors, but don't build object files
clean Remove the target directory
doc, d Build this package's and its dependencies' documentation
new Create a new cargo package
init Create a new cargo package in an existing directory
add Add dependencies to a manifest file
remove Remove dependencies from a manifest file
run, r Run a binary or example of the local package
test, t Run the tests
bench Run the benchmarks
update Update dependencies listed in Cargo.lock
search Search registry for crates
publish Package and upload this package to the registry
install Install a Rust binary. Default location is $HOME/.cargo/bin
uninstall Uninstall a Rust binary
Other binaries includes:
- rustc - rust compiler
- mdbook - create markdown books like this one
- rustfmt - linter and formatter
- rustup - toolchain installer