Rust Programming By Example

Cargo and crates.io

A very important thing to note with Rust's ecosystem is that Cargo is really important if not central. It makes things much easier and all Rust projects are using it.

Cargo isn't only a build tool, it's also Rust's default package manager. If you need to download a dependency, Cargo will do it. You can find all available published crates on https://crates.io/. Consider the following screenshot:

Figure 2.1

In the case of the sdl2 crate, we can see on its page (https://crates.io/crates/sdl2) some interesting and useful information:

Figure 2.2

On the right-hand side, you can see the version history. It can be useful to check ...