Cell and RefCell in Rust

Feb 02, 2023

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https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cell/

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cell/struct.RefCell.html

Rc + RefCell is another alternative to circumvent Rust's borrow checker at compile …

Pointer, Reference and Ownership in Rust

May 15, 2021

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You should avoid using lifetime annotation as much as possible especially in public APIs. Leveraging smart pointers is a good approach to elide lifetime annotations. For more discussions on this, please refer to Smart pointers: The secret to write clean Rust code