Learning Rust

• This is just a place where I might dump random observations while [[learning]] [[rust]].
• [[go]] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch01-02-hello-world.html
  • a movable pointer
• Installing [[rustup]] via curl produced a working install right away, whereas snap install curl didn’t for some reason.
• println! is a [[macro]], not a [[function]], and this is indicated by the !. At first glance I thought it meant it was a function with side effects.
• Semicolons. Sigh.
• "Cargo is Rust’s build system and package manager. Most Rustaceans use this tool to manage their Rust projects because Cargo handles a lot of tasks for you, such as building your code, downloading the libraries your code depends on, and building those libraries."