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T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by LWN.net at 02 Oct, 15:11 UTC

Rust has a number of kinds of smart pointers, both in the standard library and defined by users. Still, some operations that are possible with built-in references are not possible to perform with user-defined smart pointers. Tyler Mandry, lead of the Rust project's language team, spoke at RustConf…