Goran Aranđelović — Introduction to borrow checking in C++ — 30.8.2023.

In the last few years, a lot of people from C++ community are trying to implement something similar to Rust's Borrow Checker.

This is a hard problem and because Borrow Checker is meant to check for violations at compile-time, the solution would require changes in the compiler in order to have full-fledged functionality.

Nevertheless, there are ideas how this can be achieved, at least at runtime. Although this is far from Rust's borrowing mechanism, there are some interesting opportunities revolving around those implementations.

In this talk, we'll introduce basic terminology and present couple of ideas how (partial) borrow checking can be implemented.

Link to the PDF presentation: https://github.com/bsdgox/cppserbia/b...

Speaker: Goran Aranđelović