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1: A new project

In this chapter, we'll:
  • Create a new Rust project on the command line without errors
  • Compile and build a simple "Hello, World" Rust project without errors

In Getting Started with Rust, we will create a Markdown compiler called TinyMD, which will take a markdown file as input, convert the markdown to HTML, then write the HTML to a new file.

To start, let’s create a new project with cargo, the package manager and project building tool that comes from installing Rust.

We will scaffold this and all projects in Rust using the cargo tool, passing the new argument and specifying what we want:

$ cargo new tinymd --bin

The command cargo new builds a new project, and the --bin flag tells Cargo that you want this project built as an executable (called tinymd) instead of a library.

After running the command, you will get a confirmation that the project was scaffolded correctly. Go ahead and open the project’s root folder, tinymd.