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By Kevin McAleer, 2 Minutes
The Rust ecosystem is rich and evolving, with tools and resources designed to make Rust development efficient and enjoyable. This lesson introduces Cargo, Rust’s package manager and build system, along with other tools and community resources.
Cargo is Rust’s build system and package manager, similar to Python’s pip, but also manages building code, downloading libraries, and more. Crates are Rust’s term for a package of code, and Cargo makes it easy to manage dependencies by placing them in a Cargo.toml
file.
[dependencies]
serde = "1.0"
This TOML file tells Cargo to download and include the serde crate (package) in your project.
Rust provides several tools to assist in development:
The Rust community is active and welcoming, providing a wealth of resources for developers:
This lesson provided an overview of the Rust ecosystem and tools, including Cargo and various Rust development tools, and highlighted community resources that support learning and problem-solving in Rust.
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