Rust Development Tools

Rust development environment with rustup, cargo tooling, and rust-analyzer for systems programming.

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Overview

Complete Rust setup via rustup including the Rust compiler, Cargo package manager, cargo-edit for dependency management, cargo-watch for auto-rebuild, and cargo-outdated for dependency updates. Includes rust-analyzer and CodeLLDB debugger VS Code extensions.

Script ID:dev-rust

Script:install-dev-rust.sh

Website:https://www.rust-lang.org

System Packages

Package	Description
build-essential
pkg-config
libssl-dev

Rust Packages (cargo)

Package	Description
cargo-edit
cargo-watch
cargo-outdated

VS Code Extensions

Extension	Description
Rust Analyzer	Rust language support with rust-analyzer
CodeLLDB	Native debugger for Rust
Dependi	Replacement for Crates; manages Rust dependencies

Installation

Install via the interactive menu:

dev-setup

Or install directly:

.devcontainer/additions/install-dev-rust.sh

Full installation options (click to expand)

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ID:           dev-rust
Name:         Rust Development Tools
Script version: 0.0.1
Category:     LANGUAGE_DEV, Development Tools
Description:  Installs Rust (latest stable via rustup), cargo, and sets up Rust development environment

Usage:

  Action:
      install-dev-rust.sh               # Install Rust development tools
      install-dev-rust.sh --uninstall   # Uninstall Rust development tools

  Info:
      install-dev-rust.sh --help        # Show help and usage information

System Packages (APT):
  - build-essential
  - pkg-config
  - libssl-dev

Rust Packages (cargo install):
  - cargo-edit
  - cargo-watch
  - cargo-outdated

VS Code Extensions:
  - Rust Analyzer (rust-lang.rust-analyzer) - Rust language support with rust-analyzer
  - CodeLLDB (vadimcn.vscode-lldb) - Native debugger for Rust
  - Dependi (serayuzgur.dependi) - Replacement for Crates; manages Rust dependencies

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