3.3. Memory management in Rust - The basics of lifetimes and ownership

Now that we know how the operating system treats memory, it is time to look at how we as programmers can deal with memory. Since memory management is one of the major areas of systems programming, it pays off to have a programming language that gives us good tools for managing memory. In this section, we will learn what tools the Rust programming language gives programmers for memory management, and how they differ from the common tools that the C/C++ programming language family provides. We will learn about memory allocation, delve deeper into the concept of lifetimes with a special focus on Rust's take on it, and will examine the concepts of copy- and move-semantics.