Rust

Rust is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, type safety, and memory safety without needing a garbage collector.

Installation

Rust is installed and managed via rustup, the official Rust toolchain installer.

Rust requires standard C compiler tools for building native dependencies:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential curl gcc

Download and execute the official rustup setup script:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y

Configure your current shell environment:

source "$HOME/.cargo/env"

To make this permanent, ensure $HOME/.cargo/env is sourced in your ~/.bashrc file.

Verify that rustc (compiler) and cargo (package manager) are available:

rustc --version
cargo --version

Create a file named main.rs:

fn main() {
    println!("Hello, TIDE!");
}

Compile and run:

rustc main.rs
./main

Create a new Cargo project:

cargo new hello_tide
cd hello_tide
cargo run