How to get started in Rust

[kanekoshoyu]

I received quite a few message in the past few months and one of the most common question is how to get started with rust, coming from python background! It is good to hear that because I code python and rust as well.

For setup, you have to install rust compiler and Cargo crate manager (equivalent of pip in python). I code in VS code, and I use this extension called rust-analyzer.

Rust is difficult for newcomers because there is a lot of concepts to be cleared in order to code smoothly, Do spend some time grasping clear concept below with ChatGPT.

• statically typed compiled language vs dynamically typed scripting language
• static memory vs dynamic memory
• call by reference vs call by value
• borrow vs clone
• String vs &str
• trait vs impl
• Cargo.toml vs mod.rs

As for this specific project, I am using tokio as the main runtime. Look into bwlow terminologies.

• Asynchronous
• Mutex
• Events
• Pub/Sub

All the actual application executable code is in /bin directory. Everything else you can consider them as library, which I'll keep updating. This means /bin here is more of a sample code for your reference on how I implement the application code using the library. I welcome both the pull requests in bin or lib.