Learning Rust
Intro:
Rust is a systems programming language that allows for building applications that are performant and efficient during runtime. Rust programs are memory safe and their performance metrics are close to that of C language.
Installation:
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Windows:
choco install rustc -
Linux:
curl ...
📌Be sure to check the Rust docs here
Creating a New Project:
Ownership
Three rules of ownership:
Importance of ownership in Rust
Ownership prrevents memory safety issues:
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Dangling pointers
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Double-free - trying to free memory that has already been freed
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Memory leaks - not freeing memory that should have been freed
Borrowing
Rules of References:
