[tialaramex]

Rust isn't a Garbage Collected language.

However, because Rust cares about who owns things, it gets to have all the benefits you get with say RAII types in C++ except seamlessly (in safe Rust anyway).

Imagine you make a Doodad, like you call a constructor for it maybe, or there's some call somewhere that gives you a Doodad. OK. Now you put the Doodad in a Hashtable of Doodads. Well, is that still your Doodad? Are you responsible for ensuring it is properly cleaned up at some point? Or does the Hashtable now take responsibility for it? If somebody looks in the Hashtable, do they get back the Doodad? Now is it no longer the Hashtable's responsibility?

Rust systematically has answers to all these questions, which permeates the language and its ethos, in exchange it gets to have really nice properties.