Building a Random Friend Dialer Part 1: Getting Started with Rust and Iron

Ricky Robinett, a developer, shares his experience building a random friend dialer application using Rust and Iron. He starts by installing Rust and creating a new project with Cargo, the package manager for Rust. After setting up a basic "Hello World!" application, he introduces Iron, an extensible web framework for Rust, to build a web application. With Iron, Robinett creates his first web app, which displays "Hello World!", but struggles to implement routing. He adds Router as a dependency and uses it to create routes for different pages, including one that will eventually be used for the dialer functionality. The article concludes with Robinett having fun learning Rust and invites readers to join him on this journey, promising to integrate a database in the next part of the series.

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