learn-rust

Learn about the Rust programming language.

From a Data Science & Analytics Club workshop, held February 4, 2025. Slides.

How to use this repository

1. Clone the repo as usual to your local workstation.

2. This repo includes submodules. To initialize (fetch) all submodules, run this:

   git submodule init
   git submodule update

3. To do these two steps at once, try this command:

   git clone --recurse-submodules [email protected]:uvads/learn-rust.git

Setting Up

To work with Rust it is recommended that you install rustup which includes Cargo and other utilities. Cargo does the following:

• Init new Rust projects
• Package manager
• Compiler
• Runs tests
• Publish packages/releases to https://crates.io/

Your First Rust Application

1. Create a new application using cargo:

   cargo new my-new-project
   

2. cd into the new project and take inventory of the resources created for you.

3. Edit the src/main.rs file and be sure to include a main() function (this drives everything).

4. To build+run at the same time:

   cargo run
   

5. To build a release:

   cargo build
   cargo build --release
   

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