Build with Naz : Box and Pin exploration in Rust

This tutorial, video, and repo are a deep dive into Rust `Pin` and `Box` types, along with concepts of ownership and borrowing. We will also cover a lot of background information on the concepts of operating system process, memory allocation and access, stack, and heap. The examples we create are designed to demonstrate the different semantics around the use
of boxes and pinned boxes in Rust.

Article: https://developerlife.com/2024/07/16/...

Repo: https://github.com/nazmulidris/rust-s...

Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:30 async Rust, Futures and state machine and the need for Pin
00:01:30 Why Pin and Box?
00:02:15 Move semantics
00:02:44 Create a new crate for live coding
00:03:35 Deps to make tests run serially and to format println output
00:04:00 Operating systems background - process, heap, stack, and memory layout
00:06:00 Sized and stack
00:07:30 Variables and values (on the stack)
00:08:30 Rust ownership and borrowing
00:09:11 Pointers and indirection, pointers and pointees
00:10:00 Stack and function calls
00:11:00 Heap and !Sized, type erasure, trait pointers, and need for Box
00:12:50 Stack and heap interplay
00:13:30 Pointer, pointee, size, indirection, and dereference
00:15:15 Rust - get address of variable
00:22:00 Formatting println output with color
00:25:00 Macros that we can use for ease of use
00:29:00 size of pointees
00:30:40 Moving boxes and switching the contents of boxes
00:32:00 Example - move a box
00:48:00 Example - swap the contents of two boxes
00:59:00 Example - pin and box together
01:10:10 Outro

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