Rust’s memory management is one of its standout features, providing a blend of performance and safety. Unlike languages with garbage collectors, Rust uses ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes to ensure memory safety at compile time. This tutorial will cover these concepts in detail, showing how to leverage them in advanced scenarios.
Ownership is central to Rust’s memory management model. Every value in Rust has a single owner, and when the owner goes out of scope, the value is automatically deallocated. This eliminates many common memory issues, such as double-free errors and dangling pointers.