Building a Command-Line Application
Everything so far has been pieces — ownership, traits, error handling, modules. Now we put them together into the kind of thing you'd actually ship: a small command-line application. Building a real program reveals how Rust's features combine in practice — structuring the code, parsing arguments, handling errors gracefully with `Result` and `?`, separating logic from `main` for testability, and returning proper exit codes. It's where the language stops being a set of concepts and becomes a tool for building software.
Everything so far has been pieces — ownership, traits, error handling, modules. Now we put them together into the kind of thing you'd actually ship: a small command-line application. Building a real program reveals how Rust's features combine in practice, where the language becomes a tool for building software.