Adding functionality to cargo

The default installation of cargo provides a ton of functionality and out of the box it handles pretty much all of the common development tasks you will encounter.

As a side note, for those from a Java background cargo feels like Maven on steroids. Don’t mention gradle aka. Ant rewritten in groovy… 😜

There are a couple of add-ons we will install:

Clippy - https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/clippy/

A linter for Rust that can be configured to be just as annoying as its’ namesake…

See How to configure clippy to be as annoying as possible

rustup component add clippy-preview cargo-clippy

Cargo edit - https://lib.rs/crates/cargo-edit

Additional functionality to manage dependencies ie. upgrades

cargo install cargo-edit