Rust 1: Intro

Having risen to the top of the charts as the most admired language in the Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey (2023), with its proponents rewriting every known app left and right in their favourite language, always remarking that it was written in Rust and that it, of course, is blazingly fast, Rust has become a force to be reckoned with.

Let’s check out what all this fuzz is about. I’m going to try to write couple pieces on Rust while I learn. Stay tuned.

A simple hello world program

// Hello World, filename: main.rs

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

Not much going on here, perhaps for except println!, which is a macro, it therefore has the ”!” after it.

Install Rustup and compile and run:

rustc main.rs
./main

Until next time :)