SMRTR ProgrammingMar 14, 2025Dev.to

Rust Smart Pointers Explained: Ownership, Memory, and Safety

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Rust's smart pointers (Box, Rc, Arc, and RefCell) are data structures that own and manage memory, offering features like heap allocation, multiple ownership, thread-safe sharing, and interior mutability while implementing Drop and Deref traits for automatic memory management.

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