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Covers installing Rust via rustup on macOS, Linux, and Windows, configuring... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/medium-j5k11rvds og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/J5k11RvDs.png og:image:alt: Medium og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Medium **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 17 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A beginner-friendly setup guide for Rust aimed at Solidity/blockchain developers. Covers installing Rust via rustup on macOS, Linux, and Windows, configuring VS Code or Cursor with rust-analyzer, creating a first Cargo project, and understanding the toolchain components (rustup, rustc, cargo, rust-analyzer, Cargo.toml). 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