Rust 101 - 9: Vecs, Boxes and slices

Explanation of some of the most commonly used types in Rust: Vecs, which store lists of items, Boxes that allow us to own things that we keep on the heap, and slices that are a way of referring to parts of Vecs or arrays without owning them.

Series: Language basics, More syntax, Traits and generics, Building applications, Concurrency and parallelism, Trait objects, Async, Unsafe, FFI

This section (More syntax): 5: References, 6: Structs and Enums, 7: Panic and Result, 8: Methods, 9: Vec and Box, 10: Strings, 11: Exercises A2

Links:

• Slides: Rust 101 - 9: Vecs, Boxes and slices
• Exercises: artificialworlds.net/presentations/rust-101/exercises/A2-advanced-intro/mod.html

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