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You can also selectively circumvent it without dipping into
unsafe
, by wrapping a type in anRc
orArc
("reference-counting" and "atomic reference-counting"). This will allow you to handle an object largely like you might expect from garbage-collected languages. (Reference-counting is not able to free circular dependencies. If you need those, then useWeakRef
.)Having said that, I would certainly not recommend constantly doing that for a beginner. It needs some time to get used to the way Rust works, especially if you're already experienced in other languages, but when it clicks, then you stop breaking your brain.