Writing Your Own Application - The Rust on ESP Book (original) (raw)

The Rust on ESP Book

Writing Your Own Application

With the appropriate Rust compiler and toolchain installed, you're now ready to create an application.

You can write an application in the following ways:

• (Strongly recommended) Generate from a template: Gives you a configured project, saves time, and prevents possible errors.
• Start from scratch using Cargo: Requires more expertise since you need to configure several parts of the project.

  ⚠️ Note: Starting a project with Cargo doesn't provide any advantage, only mentioned here since it's the usual way of generating a project in Rust.

This chapter won't cover the instructions on how to create a project from scratch with cargo, it will only focus on generating a project from a template project.

The tools used in this chapter will be covered in more detail in the next chapter Tooling, feel free to refer to it when required.