It all started with an informal chat with my friend Anthony. We were talking about languages, and I said that I preferred compiled ones. He then went on to mention Rust. We admitted that we were too afraid to learn it because of its perceived complexity.

After the chat, I thought about it, and I wondered why I didn’t check by myself. I did. And I became interested.

There are tons of resources on the Web on how to learn Rust. This post is a memo of the steps I followed. It’s probably less structured than my other posts but I hope you might benefit from those notes anyway.

Rust Entry-Point

The main entry-point for learning Rust is the official Rust book.

In the book, the installation method is with curl. IMHO, this approach has two downsides:

1. It’s a security risk, however slight
2. More importantly, no package manager can automatically update the installation.

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