Rust is a very young and very modern language. It helps you write faster, more reliable software. The goal for Rust is to create a highly concurrent, safe and perfomant system.

Installation

The first step we will download Rust through rustup, a command line tool for managing Rust versions and associated tools.

Installing rustup on Linux or macos

Open your terminal and run the following command
$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

The command downloads a script and starts the installation of the rustup tool, which installs the latest stable version of Rust.
If the install is successful the following line will appear:
Rust is installed now. Great!

You will also need a linker, which is a program that Rust uses to join its compiled outputs into one file. If you use Ubuntu, you can install the build-essential package.

Installing rustup on Windows

On windows, go to https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install and follow the instructions for installing Rust. You will need the MSVC build tools for Visual Studio 2013 or later. When asked which workloads to install, include:

• “Desktop Development with C++”
• The Windows 10 or 11 SDK
• The English language pack component, along with any other language pack of your choosing

Troubleshooting

To check whether you have Rust installed correctly, open a shell and enter this line:
rustc --version

You should see the version number, commit hash, and commit date for the latest stable version that has been released, in the following format:
rustc x.y.z (abcabcabc yyyy-mm-dd)

If you see this information, you have installed Rust successfully! If you don’t see this information, check that Rust is in your PATH system variable as follows.

In Windows CMD, use:
> echo %PATH%

In PowerShell, use:
> echo $env:Path

In Linux and macOS, use:
$ echo $PATH

Updating and Uninstalling

Once Rust is installed via rustup, updating to a newly released version is easy. From your shell, run the following update script:
rustup update

To uninstall Rust and rustup, run the following uninstall script from your shell:
rustup self uninstall