How To Start Rust Programming Language for High Performance using Intellij IDEA on Windows 10

Last updated: 01/01/2021

A Korean translation of this tutorial is located in the translate folder.

Rust is a “systems programming language that focuses on
speed, memory safety, and parallelism”.

Introduction

Rust is Systems Programming Language designed for performance and safety, especially safe concurrency. Recently, Rust has been voted the "most loved programming language" in Stack Overflow Developer Survey because of High Performance and Safety. (Exactly Since 2016.) Because Rust has an Ownership system, might feel differ from other language. However, it has been evaluated as having high potential due to its paradigm such as memory safety. So learning Rust will be a great experience, especially if you want to become a system developer. (More Info : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language))

Environment

• IDE : Intellij IDEA Community Edition 2020.3.1
• OS(e.g., Linux) : Windows 10
• Intellij Rust Version : 0.3.138.3572-203

Installation

• install Intellij IDEA from https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
• install Rust in Intellij IDEA Plugins in Settings / Preferences | Plugins | Marketplace in IDE

Other OS

- Getting Started on Ubuntu 20.4 LTS (Focal Fossa)