Rust Setup

Basic Setup Instructions for Rust

Installing Rust and Setting up a Development Environment

• Install rust using the rustup toolchain manager

  • If you don't already have rust installed follow the prompt and just accept the default options. If you already have rust installed be sure to update your rust version and install the nightly toolchain

  • $ rustup update

  • $ rustup toolchain install nightly --allow-downgrade

  • Be sure to install clippy (a rust linter) which you can use with the following commands

  • $ rustup component add clippy

  • $ cargo clippy

  • Install a rust code formatter and run it with cargo

  • $ rustup component add rustfmt

  • $ cargo fmt

There are many more tools out there to help but these are a must-have.

Development Environment

Note: It is highly recommended you use some sort of UNIX system. It is not required but will almost certainly make things easier for you in the long run.

VS Code users can install the rust-analyzer extension

IntelliJ has a rust IDE

The rust-analyzer project has installation instructions for many more text-editors