Last year, while browsing job sites, I happened to come across the Rust programming language and made a mental note of it. It just so happens that I’m not too busy these days, so let me start by getting a first look at it.
The official website describes it like this:
A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
First, set up the local environment
Mine is a linux system, so I’ll run the following command1
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.3 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
Once it’s installed, type this in the command window
1 | rustc -V |
and you’ll see
which means the installation succeeded
Installing it also installs cargo
Cargo is Rust’s build system and package manager. Most Rustaceans use Cargo to manage their Rust projects, because it can handle a lot of tasks for you, such as building code, downloading dependency libraries and compiling those libraries
If typing rust -V or cargo —version anywhere in the terminal gives no response, then you need to symlink these two installed commands into /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin so that they can be used globally.
At this point the Rust environment is configured.
Next, let’s develop a guessing game following the documentation; the code is as follows
The final result
