introduction

IOTA is the backbone for the Internet of Things. Rust is made for this and the Web, so it fits perfectly togheter.

What is Rust?

Rust is a multi-paradigm programming language focused on performance and safety. It’s developed by Mozilla and backed up with sponsoring by big players like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Here is a website with some companies which use Rust in production with different uses cases. These use cases are very diverse, for example, Atlassian use Rust in service for analyzing petabytes of their source code and Cloudflare uses it as a replacement for memory-unsafe languages (particularly C) and is using it in their core edge logic.

What is IOTA?

The first open-source distributed ledger that is being built to power the future of the Internet of Things with feeless microtransactions and data integrity for machines. iota.org

What is this Workshop?

This workshop is for developers, who wants to get started with IOTA and Rust. It containts examples, which can be build and run with Cargo. Cargo is the Rust package manager.

The workshop will cover

Connect to the Tangle
Send Data
Fetch Data
Create an IOTA Address
Get tokens via the a faucet and check the balance
Send Tokens

Setup Developer Environment

You will need to install Rust and a Code Editor.

Install Rust

To install rust on your computer, follow the instructions on official rust website

for macOS, Linux, or another Unix-like OS run in your terminal

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

For other platforms, see Installing Rust Guide

Code editor

Choose a code editor. We recommend Visual Studio Code - VSCode.

Open a new Terminal in VSCode an run the first example.

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