Tutorials · Rust

Rust Examples

Two guides that take you from no compiler to a working Rust program you wrote yourself, and then rewrote properly. Install the toolchain with rustup, learn the language one runnable example at a time (including the part everyone finds hard: ownership and borrowing), then build a bowling scorer twice. Every example on these pages was compiled and run, and its real output is shown.

The route these guides follow

⬇

Install

rustup · rustc

📦

Cargo

cargo new · run

✎

Basics

types · match

🔑

Ownership

move · borrow

🎳

Build

bowling · 167

Guides 2

START HERE

A compiler, and the basics.

If cargo --version already prints something on your machine, skip the install section and start at Program Structure.

Installing & Learning Rust

Start here. Install Rust with rustup on Linux, macOS, or Windows, create your first project with cargo new, then work through the fundamentals: variables, strings, collections, match, ownership and borrowing, structs, enums, Option and Result, traits and generics. Every section has a runnable example and its real output.

LESSONS

Learn the language by building something.

The same bowling lesson as the Go, Python and C versions, so if you've done one of those you already know the problem and can concentrate on the Rust.

Learning to Code by Bowling (Rust)

A beginner build-along: score a real game with nothing but if and else, then replay it with one loop, a match and a flat Vec of rolls. Same score of 167, a quarter of the code. A lesson in improving code you've already written.

Why Rust feels strict

The compiler checks who owns every value and who is allowed to change it. Code that would crash or corrupt memory at run time in other languages simply doesn't compile. The error messages are long, but they usually tell you the exact fix.

cargo new, cargo run, cargo build --release. Everything on this page starts with those three commands.