Rust Smart Pointers

Based on The Rust Programming Language Ch. 15, Effective Rust, and the Nomicon.

When to Use This Skill

• Choosing between stack and heap allocation
• Implementing shared ownership (Rc/Arc)
• Interior mutability (Cell/RefCell)
• Copy-on-write patterns (Cow)
• Pinning for self-referential types (Pin)
• Understanding Deref coercions

Smart Pointer Overview