README.md

Memory & Resource Management

With a Side Helping of Traits and Generics

Please have Rust installed (via RustUp) and a working IDE/editor setup.

First Hour

• Introduction
• Why Haven't We Manually Managed Any Memory Yet?
• The unsafe Keyword
• Low-Level Memory Management
• The Drop Trait and RAII (Resource Acquisition is Initialization)
• Let's take a break

Second Hour

• Reference Counting
• Lifetimes
• Traits
• Generics
• Let's take a break

Third Hour

• Iterators
• Cycles and the Difficulty of Linked Lists
• Memory Fragmentation, Allocators and Arenas
• Packing, Reordering & Mangling
• Let's take a break

Fourth Hour

• From Bytes to Types
• Safely Interacting with Other Languages
• Surprise: Memory Leaks are Safe!
• See you next week!