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Published inApr 2024
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Akhil Sharma
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Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma is a Software Engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the CTO of Dominate, a SaaS product company, and the founder of Myrl Tech, a tech services company providing technology consulting to some of the top enterprise companies in the world such as HP, 3M, Honda, Bose, and Adobe. He has 12+ years of industry experience and a solid understanding of building digital products. He is adept at multiple programming languages such as Golang, Rust, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript. He has mentored hundreds of engineers offline and discovered that they knew the programming language and the concepts around it but were unable to use them in real-world applications. He aims to close this gap by teaching how to apply the concepts practically and build projects in real time.
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Technical requirements

First, we must get our system ready with the required installations.

The most recommended operating systems to work with Rust are Ubuntu and macOS. You can also install Rust on Windows and work with it but you may run into issues in slightly more advanced and complex programs. If you’re on Windows, the most recommended way to go is using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL-2), which enables you to work with Ubuntu inside Windows.

Windows installation

For Windows systems, you can directly download the installer from the official Rust website (https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install).

To set up Rust on your Windows system, you can follow the instructions provided on the Windows development environment web page (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/rust/setup).

Mac installation

For macOS users, the best way to install Rust is by using the Homebrew package manager.

Make sure you have Homebrew installed. If you don’...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837634644

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Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma is a Software Engineer and an entrepreneur. He is the CTO of Dominate, a SaaS product company, and the founder of Myrl Tech, a tech services company providing technology consulting to some of the top enterprise companies in the world such as HP, 3M, Honda, Bose, and Adobe. He has 12+ years of industry experience and a solid understanding of building digital products. He is adept at multiple programming languages such as Golang, Rust, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript. He has mentored hundreds of engineers offline and discovered that they knew the programming language and the concepts around it but were unable to use them in real-world applications. He aims to close this gap by teaching how to apply the concepts practically and build projects in real time.
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