e017: Point me where I need to go

A deep dive on references and pointers in Rust.

By listener request, today we look at the syntax and semantics of referencing and dereferencing and the corresponding & and * operators.

As was the case with e016, the code samples have little to say in their documentation; reading the code will be necessary for seeing the ideas.

“Inside the Fastest Font Renderer in the World”
The Rust Platform:

original blog post

Rust internals discussion
Reddit discussion
Hacker News discussion

follow-up

Reddit discussion

Cargo vendoring support in nightly
MIR on by default in nightly
References and dereferencing:

The Rust Programming Language:

References and Borrowing
Deref coercions

Rust by Example: Flow Control: pointers/ref
The Rust Reference:

Unary Operator Expressions
Pointer Types

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