In this chapter, you will learn:
The concepts of “borrowing” and “lifetime”
Which are the typical programming errors regarding borrowing, that plague system software
How Rust strict syntax can prevent such typical errors, using a borrow checker
How inserting a block can restrict the scope of borrowing
Why functions returning references need lifetime specifiers
How to use lifetime specifiers for functions, and what they mean
What is the task of the borrow checker
Ownership and Borrowing
We already saw that when you assign a variable "a" to a variable "b", there are two cases: either their type is copyable, ...
