Comment by lelanthran

> Literally the whole point of rust is to not do manual memory management and let a compiler handle that for you.

Incorrect. The compiler forces you to handle memory properly. It doesn't, as far as I know, manage it for you.

The burden is on the programmer to do it correctly. The compiler stops the programmer from doing it incorrectly.

Compare with GC, where the programmer is freed from the burden of worrying about memory altogether.