As someone who has spent over two decades in the embedded systems industry, I’ve seen the vast evolution of technology—from 8-bit microcontrollers to today’s sophisticated, multicore systems. Yet, one ...
In our first part on pointers, we covered the basics and common pitfalls of pointers in C. If we had to break it down into one sentence, the main principle of pointers is that they are simply data ...
What is the Rust borrow checker and why is it important? How mutability and reference-counted pointers are related. Arguably the most novel aspect of Rust, and the feature that’s the most challenging ...
The Rust language brings a fresh approach to whacking the pointer mole. Why the Rust language needed a fresh approach to managing pointers. Why there are no null values in Rust. Pointers in the Rust ...