Installing Rust

We will use Rust to create a web server. Before we can start writing our web server, we should install Rust.

Installation

Rust can be installed and updated via a handy tool called rustup as described on the installation page. This allows you to have multiple different versions of Rust live next to each other.

When you execute the installation command, the install script will asks some questions. Make sure you read and understand what the script will try to achieve. For this tutorial no customization is necessary.

When the scripts finished Rust is installed. This comes with a couple of tools.

Verification

To make sure that the installation was successful the following commands should run without error.

cargo --version

The above command should respond with the installed cargo version. At the time of this writing that was 1.38.0.

rustc --version

Should respond with the same version.