By EC Linux January 12, 2026
Business Items
Next Meeting: February 9, 2026 @6PM
Location: Beachside Church
Items discussed:
Rust Night!
Aaron gave us an intro to the Rust programming language. Next month we will dive a little deeper and work on writing some basic code!
# Get the following executables available on your system, and test as in the following:
rustc --version
cargo --version
# For Arch:
sudo pacman -S rust
# For Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora: use rustup
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
# For NixOS, just add them to your systemPackages.
Additional Resources:
A half-hour to learn Rust: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust
Interactive “The Rust Book” at Brown: https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/
Rust Documentation: https://doc.rust-lang.org
Compile Rust online: https://play.rust-lang.org