When leaking memory makes sense: Leaking memory in Rust
It is believed that it is impossible to leak memory with Rust, that is not true. Although is way more difficult to leak memory in Rust than in other languages, it can happen, sometimes by accident, and sometimes, by design. In this article we will explore some cases where leaking memory is useful. Sharing memory between threads Imagine that you have a value that it does not change and needs to be shared across several threads. If the value can be initialized with constant functions or values, you can use the static keyword. But what if the value to be shared is not constant? What are the options? ...