Structure of a Rust project

A Rust project (irrespective of the platform you are developing on) will have the following structure:

The preceding screenshot shows the structure of the simplest Rust project, and as such can be replicated using the following commands:

The echo $null >> filename command creates an empty file without the need to start Notepad; save the file and exit.

The Cargo.toml file is the Rust equivalent of a Makefile. When the .toml file is created by hand, it should be edited to contain something like this:

The structure of a Rust project can expand to include documentation as well as the build structure, as follows: