Writing Your Own Application

With the appropriate Rust compiler and toolchain installed, you're now ready to create an application.

You can write an application in the following ways:

• (Strongly recommended) Generate from a template: Gives you a configured project, saves time, and prevents possible errors.
• Start from scratch using Cargo: Requires more expertise since you need to configure several parts of the project.

  ⚠️ Note: Starting a project with Cargo doesn't provide any advantage, only mentioned here since it's the usual way of generating a project in Rust.

This chapter won't cover the instructions on how to create a project from scratch with cargo, it will only focus on generating a project from a template project.

The tools used in this chapter will be covered in more detail in the next chapter Tooling, feel free to refer to it when required.