rsw

Rust Workshop

Topics

Rust Installation

• rustup, rustc, cargo, linker deps (gcc/build-essential or clang or mscpp)

Rust environment setup

• VS Code - Rust-analyzer + CodeLLDB
• Vim/Neovim - Rust.vim + Syntastic + Rust-analyzer + CoC

Project Types

• bin
  • Cargo new, build, run and debug
  • Cargo check and Cargo fmt
  • std:io example - prelude,
  • Import dependencies. simple example such as rand or serde
  • println! vs eprintln! vs dbg!
    • redirect streams
      • ./rsw-app > output for just stdout (> is same as 1>)
      • ./rsw-app 2> errors for stderr
      • ./rsw-app 1> output 2> errors for both
      • ./rsw-app > logs 2>&1
• lib
  • cargo new --lib, build
  • cargo test
  • unit testing - run and debug
  • intro to modules (mod)
  • multi-file project example.

Cargo Workspaces

• bin + lib workspace demo
• Rebuilding launch configuration
• debugging on vs code

Using Cargo install to install other rust based cli tools

• Examples: ripgrep, tokei, bat, etc.