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Video: but what is 'a lifetime? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 11 months ago by SorteKanin@feddit.dk to c/rust@programming.dev

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I think it's actually quite a nice way to think about it. Thinking in terms of memory is much easier than thinking in terms of sections of code.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's kind of how I always thought about it. Did they change something in the Rust book? I learned about lifetimes like 5+ years ago.

Then again, I have experience building a garbage collector, so perhaps thinking about memory instead of code blocks just came naturally to be.

Regardless, thanks for the video, it was quite clear and I'll be recommending it to others (also didn't know about the "outlives" syntax, so that's cool).