haifenghuang

Generic constraints

In Rust it is easy to constrain a generic type to only include types extending from some interface. For example:

pub trait DoSomething {
    fn do_something(&self);
}

haifenghuang

My explanation of the main concepts in Rust

There are three main concepts with Rust:

1. Ownership (only one variable "owns" the data at one time, and the owner is in charge of deallocating)
2. Borrowing (you can borrow a reference to an owned variable)
3. Lifetimes (all data keeps track of when it will be destroyed)

These are fairly simple concepts, but they are often counter-intuitive to concepts in other languages, so I wanted to give a shot at