Explanation of some of the most commonly used types in Rust: Vecs, which store lists of items, Boxes that allow us to own things that we keep on the heap, and slices that are a way of referring to parts of Vecs or arrays without owning them.

In case you’re interested, the bug that Andy found mid-recording(!) in the slides was fixed in https://github.com/tweedegolf/101-rs/issues/97 .

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