Hello World in Mozilla's Rust language

This is trivial Hello World example written in Mozilla's Rust language. This example comes from https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/getting-started.html

Setup

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS (formerly Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS)

Install these packages on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install git rustc cargo

Clone this project using:

mkdir ~/projects
cd ~/projects
git clone https://github.com/hpaluch/rust-hello-world.git
cd rust-hello-world

Updating from Ubuntu 16 to Ubuntu 18: Issue this command to update to recent dependencies:

cargo update

Build

Invoke for this project directory:

cargo build

Run

Invoke this command from project directory:

cargo run

Examples

Date example

Printing current date/time:

• chrono depndency was added to Cargo.toml from https://docs.rs/chrono/0.4.6/chrono/
• and example snippet was copied from https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/datetime/parse.html#display-formatted-date-and-time

These two files were modified:

• Cargo.toml
• main.rs

Original hello-world

Can be still fetched using this tag: https://github.com/hpaluch/rust-hello-world/tree/t-just-hello-world

Resources

• https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/getting-started.html
• https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/ About Mozilla's Rust language
• https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/ DropBox using Rust