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The Ultimate Guide to Rust Programming

Ownership and Moving

Explore Rust's ownership concept and the rules that ensure safe value management in programming. Understand how values have a single owner and how moving values between functions works, including the resulting restrictions. This lesson helps you grasp a foundational Rust feature to write safer and more efficient code.

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It’s time to introduce one of the most core concepts in all of Rust: ownership. We’ll discuss the motivation for this another time, but every value in Rust has exactly one owner. For example, in this program:

fn main() {
    let x: i32 = 5;
    println!("{}", x);
}

The x variable ...