Ownership & Borrowing

Lesson 6: Borrowing and References in Rust What Are References and Borrowing? In Rust, ownership ensures only one variable owns any given data at a time, but sometimes, you want to allow functions to read or even modify data without taking ownership. That’s where references and borrowing come into play. Immutable References You can create any number of immutable references (read-only […]

Lesson 5: Functions and Ownership Basics in Rust Introduction Functions help break your program into manageable, reusable pieces. Rust’s approach to ownership is what makes it unique, providing memory safety with zero runtime cost. In this lesson, we’ll learn both! Defining and Calling Functions A function in Rust is declared with the fn keyword, a name, parentheses for parameters,