X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/rust-101.git/blobdiff_plain/a115b75de6e7e85f8799a77e2998ab1a24743e06..fff8ebeb3f0b84c71275cbb5adee0aad6114f79b:/src/main.rs?ds=inline diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs index 4ecf632..70ba796 100644 --- a/src/main.rs +++ b/src/main.rs @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ // dispatch), which makes it possible to construct abstractions that carry no run-time // cost. This is combined with the comfort of high-level functional languages and guaranteed // safety (as in, the program will not crash). The vast majority of existing -// languages sacrificies one of these goals for the other. In particular, the +// languages sacrifices one of these goals for the other. In particular, the // first requirement rules out a garbage collector: Rust can run "bare metal". // In fact, Rust rules out more classes of bugs than languages that achieve safety // with a GC: Besides dangling pointers and double-free, Rust also prevents issues @@ -42,13 +42,15 @@ // This will also install `cargo`, the tool responsible for building rust projects (or *crates*). // Next, fetch the Rust-101 source code from the [git repository](http://www.ralfj.de/git/rust-101.git) -// (also available [on GitHub](https://github.com/RalfJung/rust-101), and as [zip archive](https://github.com/RalfJung/rust-101/archive/master.zip)). +// (also available [on GitHub](https://github.com/RalfJung/rust-101), and as a +// [zip archive](https://github.com/RalfJung/rust-101/archive/master.zip) in case you don't have git installed). +// // There is a workspace prepared for you in the `workspace` folder. I suggest you copy this // folder somewhere else - that will make it much easier to later update the course without // overwriting your changes. Try `cargo build` in that new folder to check that compiling your workspace succeeds. // (You can also execute it with `cargo run`, but you'll need to do some work before this will succeed.) // -// If you later want to update the course, do `git pull` (or re-download the tip archive). +// If you later want to update the course, do `git pull` (or re-download the zip archive). // Then copy the files from `workspace/src/` to your workspace that you did not yet work on. (Of course you can also // copy the rest, but that would replace all your hard work by the original files with all the holes!)