rustHow borrow instead of move in Rust

Rust provides a powerful feature called borrow which allows you to access data without taking ownership of it. This is done by creating a reference to the data, which can be used to read or modify the data without taking ownership.

let mut x = 5;
let y = &x;

println!("x = {}", x);
println!("y = {}", y);

Output example

x = 5
y = 5

The code above creates a mutable variable x and a reference y to x. The reference y can be used to access the value of x without taking ownership of it.

The following ## Code explanation

• let mut x = 5;: This creates a mutable variable x with the value 5.
• let y = &x;: This creates a reference y to the variable x.
• println!("x = {}", x);: This prints the value of x to the console.
• println!("y = {}", y);: This prints the value of y to the console.

For more information about borrowing in Rust, please refer to the Rust Book.

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