[LinusU]

Memory safety has nothing to do with memory leaks, and it's perfectly valid to leak memory in Rust?

e.g. `Box::leak(Box::new( ... ))`

[satvikpendem]

Generally it's automatically dropped unless you go out of your way to use the leak function, which most software doesn't do.

[nicoburns]

Memory safety doesn't help too much here, but "RAII" (automatically dropping values when they go out of scope) does.