Rust Programming Cookbook

Managing Projects with Cargo

cargo is one of the unique selling points of Rust. It makes a developer's life easy by making the creating, developing, packaging, maintaining, testing, and deploying of application code or tools to production considerably more enjoyable. cargo is designed to be the single go-to tool for working on any type of Rust project across multiple stages such as the following:

• Project creation and management
• Configuring and executing builds
• Dependency installation and maintenance
• Testing
• Benchmarking
• Interfacing with other tools
• Packaging and publishing

Especially in the domain of systems programming, tools such as cargo are still rare—which is why many large-scale users developed their own versions. As a young language, ...