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Status: #idea
Tags: Rust

Rust's Goals w.r.t. Ownership

• A foundational goal of Rust, is to ensure that programs do NOT have any Undefined Behaviour
• A secondary goal of Rust, is to prevent undefined behaviour at compile-time instead of run-time. This goal has 2 motivations:
  1. Catching bugs at compile-time, avoids those bugs in production, improving reliability
  2. Catching bugs at compile-time, means fewer runtime checks for those bugs, improving performance

References

1. https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/ch04-01-what-is-ownership.html#cloning-avoids-moves
2. Ownership