This isn't a tutorial, but I found pcwalton's explanation of memory management in rust[0] to be an excellent primer for the different allocation techniques in r

This isn't a tutorial, but I found pcwalton's explanation of memory management in rust[0] to be an excellent primer for the different allocation techniques in rust. Learning the different types of pointers was a real pain point for me; so I'm very thankful for this post. Maybe it will help you out while you're learning! [0]: http://pcwalton.github.com/blog/2013/03/18/an-overview-of-memory-management-in-rust/ http://pcwalton.github.com/blog/2013/03/18/an-overview-of-me...