Understanding Guard and Deref in Rust

Guard <span>Guard</span> is a common concept in Rust, meaning “to guard”. What does it guard? It guards resources, data, etc., within a specific scope. For example, the guards for mutexes and read-write locks are: • <span>MutexGuard</span> • <span>RwLockReadGuard</span> and <span>RwLockWriteGuard</span> They are an implementation of RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization), a resource management technique from … Read more