# Learning Rust

- This is just a place where I might dump random observations while [[learning]] [[rust]].
- [[go]] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch01-02-hello-world.html
  - a movable pointer
- Installing [[rustup]] via curl produced a working install right away, whereas ```snap install curl``` didn't for some reason.
- ```println!``` is a [[macro]], not a [[function]], and this is indicated by the !. At first glance I thought it meant it was a function with side effects.
- Semicolons. Sigh.
- "Cargo is Rust’s build system and package manager. Most Rustaceans use this tool to manage their Rust projects because Cargo handles a lot of tasks for you, such as building your code, downloading the libraries your code depends on, and building those libraries."