Data Types in Rust

Before we start advanced programming in Rust, we’ll need to understand how basic data types work in the language. Like many other programming language, Rust also implements a bunch of primitives that are usable by default and some advanced data structures that need to be imported in the project before we can use them.

Integers in Rust

When dealing with integers in Rust, we need to tell the compiler what sort of an integer we need and how many bits or bytes it should take up in memory.

The following table showcases the different integer types in Rust.