Beginner: fundamental knowledge
Student: actively learning
Professional: working in the industry for >1 year
Expert: working in the industry for >5 years
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Never have heard of it before
Heard of it, but never used it
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is a modern programming language recognized for prioritizing safety, reliability, and performance. It features a unique ownership system for memory management that prevents common programming errors, making it well-suited for building robust and efficient software.
Here is a short overview over Rust's memory management model utilizing interactive visualizations.
In Rust you can bind a value to an owner using the statement:
let owner = value;
Rules:
Click on variables to visualize an ownership/ borrowing graph.
One exception to these ownership rules are primitive values (e.g., numbers).
When a primitive value is used, its value is implicitly copied, instead of moving its ownership.
Note how n is used in multiple places, without transferring ownership of its value.
By default, all variables in Rust are readonly.
To mutate/write to an existing value, it's owner must be marked mutable (mut) explicitly.
Thicker lines indicate mutable values.
Note that the last line, would cause a compile error, as doubled is not mutable.
Instead of passing ownership to a value, we can also borrow the value from its owner with the &-operator.
When the owner is marked as mutable, we can also create a mutable reference (&mut) to the value (which allows writing to it).
These are the basic principles of Rust's memory management (more information can be found here).
1: complete disagree
2: slight disagree
3: neutral
4: agree
5: fully agree
Would you detect errors faster compared to console-based borrow checker errors?
or deepened your (intuitive) understanding if you were already familiar with these concepts.
Making Rust easier and faster to learn for new programmers, and ones switching from other languages.
Assuming they were directly integrated into your IDE.