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Comment by simonw | Hacker News Reader

I've been trying this one for a while:

  I'm a Python programmer. Help me
  understand memory management in Rust.

Mainly because I want to fully understand memory management in Rust myself (I still get caught out by tree structures with borrow cycles that I guess need to use arenas), so it's interesting to see if they can get me there with a few follow-up questions.

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This isn't a good way to learn this. If you don't know how rust memory management works you don't know if the llm is just hallucinating the answer.

Also Rust has great documentation compared to other languages, I particularly like this one for the quizzes to test your understanding: https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/

That's why it's an interesting test: I don't know the answer myself, so it's an exercise in learning with an unreliable teacher.

If a model ever DOES nail this I'll figure that out when I feel like I have a solid mental model, try to put that knowledge into action and it works.

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