Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but can guarantee memory safety by using a borrow checker to validate references. Rust achieves memory safety without garbage collection, and reference counting is optional. Rust has been called a systems programming language and in addition to high-level features such as functional programming it also offers mechanisms for low-level memory management.
Rust was originally designed by Graydon Hoare at Mozilla Research, with contributions from Dave Herman, Brendan Eich, and others. The designers refined the language while writing the Servo experimental browser engine, and the Rust compiler. It has gained increasing use in industry, and Microsoft has been experimenting with the language for secure and safety-critical software components.
Install Rust
Run the following in your terminal, then follow the onscreen instructions.
λ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
When the Rust installer is finished, you'll be ready to program with Rust. If you wanna check, just type this command cargo --version. If you see a version number printed, then that confirms that Rust installed correctly.
Install Nightly Toolchain
Rustup makes it easy to change between different release channels of Rust, on a global or per-project basis. By default, you’ll have stable Rust installed. To install nightly, for example:
λ rustup toolchain install nightly
After finish, if you wanna set nightly as default just type rustup default nightly.
You can see all of the toolchains (releases of Rust and associated components) you have installed with rustup as well. Here’s an example on one of your authors’ computers:
λ rustup toolchain list
Instal VSCode Extensions
Install those required extensions:
After installing, open a rust file in the editor and you will be asked: some rust components not installed. Install it?. Click Yes
Some VSCode Error Reports
Component 'rls' for target 'x86_64-apple-darwin' is unavailable/Cannon install rls.., in my case set toolchain in specific versionrustup default nightly-2018-08-19-x86_64-apple-darwin.Failed to read cargo metada, add rustcrustup component add rustc. If you want to clean your project just typecargo cleanRust component can’t installed, set default nightly toolchain to stable versions and add rlsrustup component add rls.
That's all. Quite simple, with a bit of tweaking.