Rust anatomy
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Project Components
A rust project comprises of
packages build/test/share a collection of crates crates tree of modules that build a single library, or executable modules organize scope/privacy of paths paths files ? Packages
A package is a collection of crates.
- it may have multiple executable crates
- it may only have one library crate
myproject/ src/ main.rs Cargo.toml Cargo.lockCrates
A crate can be either
- a library (has
src/lib.rs
entrypoint)- an executable (has
src/main.rs
entrypoint)Modules
Modules contain groups of related srcfiles.
modules are private to their parents by default, and public to their child modules.
the name/namespace of the module mirrors it's filesystem location.
theuse
keyword can merge a module or one of it's elements into the current namespace.See more details in rust modules.