My journey of learning Rust

A few weeks ago I started to learn Rust programming language and taking some notes of things that I find interesting, especially for me who came from JavaScript world.

Here I’m gonna write those notes down, mostly for future myself ;) but it might be also useful for someone else who wants to learn Rust.

As I’m still learning, I will keep updating this post.

Day 1

• in Rust we compile and run a program as separate steps, unlike languages such as Javascript or Ruby!
• “Cargo” is Rust package manager ( like yarn/npm for node apps )
• Cargo config file - a config file similar to package.json for node apps - written in TOML language ( I don’t know why but for some reasons I loved what TOML stands for “Tom’s Obvious Minimal Language” )
• in Rust packages/dependencies are called Crates.
• These are some of the cargo commands we can use:

// To create a new Rust project we can run, this will creates a new directory called my-awesome-project
cargo new my-awesome-project
// Compile & build an executable
cargo build
// Compile, build an executable and run it
cargo run