Meeting Notes - January 2026

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