The rust way isn't intuitive if you're coming from C, but b = a does indeed transfer the ownership to b and a is now invalid/unusable. You would need to make a

The rust way isn't intuitive if you're coming from C, but b = a does indeed transfer the ownership to b and a is now invalid/unusable. You would need to make a mutable reference if you want two variables that point to the same object. error[E0382]: borrow of moved value: `a` --> main.rs:4:16 | 2 | let a = String::from("hello"); | - move occurs because `a` has type `String`, which does not implement the `Copy` trait 3 | let b = a; | - value moved here 4 | println!("{a}"); // Works! Prints: hello | ^ value borrowed here after move | = note: this error originates in the macro `$crate::format_args_nl` which comes from the expansion of the macro `println` (in Nightly builds, run with -Z macro-backtrace for more info) help: consider cloning the value if the performance cost is acceptable | 3 | let b = a.clone(); | ++++++++