Tooling

Go to Rust Series: ← Hello World Comparison | Series Overview | The Rust Compiler → Installation: First Impressions Go: Download and Done Installation: Go to golang.org/dl Download installer for your OS Run installer Done Verify: $ go version go version go1.22.0 linux/amd64 That’s it. Go is installed. One binary, one version, ready to use. Where it lives: $ which go /usr/local/go/bin/go Single installation directory. Simple. Rust: The Rustup Way Installation: $ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh This installs rustup, Rust’s toolchain manager (like nvm for Node or rbenv for Ruby). ...

Go to Rust Series: ← Day 1 Impressions | Series Overview | Hello World Comparison → First Impression: Cargo is Actually Great After struggling with Rust’s ownership system on Day 1, I expected the tooling to be equally complex. I was wrong. Cargo is fantastic. Coming from Go modules (which are already pretty good), Cargo feels like a spiritual successor with better UX. Project Initialization Go: mkdir myproject cd myproject go mod init github.com/username/myproject Creates go.mod: ...