computer science//programming language//Rust

Rust expresses ownership and borrowing rules that constrain how a program accesses values. These rules let the compiler reject many violations of memory safety before execution, including references that would outlive the data they refer to. Resource release follows ownership rather than depending on a tracing garbage collector.

Rust expresses ownership and borrowing rules that constrain how a program accesses values. These rules let the compiler reject many violations of memory safety before execution, including references that would outlive the data they refer to. Resource release follows ownership rather than depending on a tracing garbage collector.

Why Rust exists develops the motivation and tradeoffs. The rules do not make every program correct: application logic and explicit unsafe code still require their own reasoning.