Introduction to Rust Memory Management — Forge College

In this lesson you will practice Rust's ownership and borrowing rules by compiling and running short examples that make memory behavior explicit. You will learn to trace where values live, identify ownership transfers, and fix common compile-time borrow errors so your programs are memory-safe and idiomatic.

This lesson sits inside the Programming with Solana track's Introduction to Rust for Solana course and is part of the Exploring Rust Core Features and Memory Management module; it follows basic function and scope concepts and prepares you for deeper ownership-focused exercises in Solana program development.

Topics covered
- Ownership and move semantics versus Copy semantics, and how they affect stack and heap behavior
- Immutable and mutable borrowing with references and the borrow checker's compile-time rules
- How the compiler prevents use-after-free and double-free through ownership tracking
- Interpreting common compiler errors from the borrow checker and practical fixes like using references or .clone()
- Hands-on strategy: compile small snippets, observe messages, and explain ownership transfers line-by-line

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