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		LinusU 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zig → Rust porting guide Memory safety has nothing to do with memory leaks, and it's perfectly valid to leak memory in Rust? e.g. `Box::leak(Box::new( ... ))`

satvikpendem 17 days ago | [–]

Generally it's automatically dropped unless you go out of your way to use the leak function, which most software doesn't do.

nicoburns 18 days ago | [–]

Memory safety doesn't help too much here, but "RAII" (automatically dropping values when they go out of scope) does.

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