Installing rust toolchain
Lately, I have come to know of a command line search utility called [ripgrep][3], coded in rust, that is capable of faster code searches (at least for my use cases) than grep or [ag][4]. So I got interested in building the latest versions of rg (ripgrep binary name) directly from its github master branch rather than waiting for its [release binaries][5].
So came the need to install the rust toolchain on my machine. Luckily, installing that was super easy; here are the steps: