Installing Rust

Rust is a compiled language, and its compiler is called the Rust compiler (rustc). Rust also has its own package manager, called Cargo. Cargo is similar to npm for Node.js. Cargo downloads package dependencies and builds, compiles, packs, and uploads the artifacts into crates (Rust’s version of packages). The Rust language provides an easy way to install and manage Rust via rustup. rustup helps to install, update, and remove rustc, Cargo, and rustup itself. It makes it easy to install and manage various versions of Rust.

Let’s install Rust using the rustup tool and see how we can manage Rust versions using rustup.

Linux or Mac

In Linux or macOS, use the following command: