# Quick start
Before you can start writing an actix application, you’ll need a version of Rust installed.
We recommend you use rustup to install or configure such a version.
## Install Rust
Before we begin, we need to install Rust using the [rustup](https://www.rustup.rs/) installer:
```bash
If you already have rustup installed, run this command to ensure you have the latest version of Rust:
```bash
rustup update
```
The Actix framework requires rust version 1.24 and up.
## Running Examples
The fastest way to start experimenting with actix is to clone the actix repository
and run the included examples in the examples/ directory. The following set of
commands runs the `ping` example:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/actix/actix
cargo run --example ping
```
Check [examples/](https://github.com/actix/actix/tree/master/examples) directory for more examples.