Wikimedia Hackathon 2018/Intro to Rust

I (Tobias1984 (talk)) have been using Rust for 1/2 a year now and would like to show other new Rustanceans how to get up and running.

The introduction will feature:

• Install the most recent version of Rust using Rustup
• Install useful tools using Cargo (ripgrep, exa, ...)
• Starting libraries and programs using Cargo
• How to manage dependencies from Crates.io
• If time permits we will start a simple command line tool (with clap). That means you might learn a little bit about the core Rust concepts.

How to prepare

• Bring a laptop with a text editor and your choice of warm beverage.

What do you have to know

• Where the room is
• What type of warm beverage you like

Time & Location

• Sala de projectes (QC0011) 9:00 - 10:00

Interested?

Sign below if you are interested:

• Tpt (talk) 19:34, 14 May 2018 (UTC)
• Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk)
• Fnielsen (talk)

Steps done in the group

1. Go to https://rustup.rs/ and execute the shell script
2. See if "cargo" works in the terminal
3. We installed ripgrep "cargo install ripgrep"
4. We installed exa: "cargo install exa"
5. We looked at crates.io for other packages
6. We installed wkdr "cargo install wkdr"
7. Talked about Rayon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gof_OEv71Aw
8. We started a binary project "cargo init"
9. Looked at the Cargo.toml
10. Added clap to the dependencies (https://clap.rs/ – the current version is 2.31.2)
11. We run "cargo update" to get the dependencies and write the cargo.lock file
12. Talked about lifetimes, ownership, borrowing, zero-cost-abstractions.
13. Talked about Reference counted variable (Rc, mutex)

Attendance

Counted: 15

Resources

• awesome-rust#resources