Yes, you can explicitly call drop ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.drop.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.drop.html ) in Rust, which just uses mov

Yes, you can explicitly call drop ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.drop.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.drop.html ) in Rust, which just uses move semantics to force it out of scope. A similar function could be implemented in C++, and called like drop(std::move(value)).