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Rust Mental Model & Systems Transition Lab

From Python to Rust & C++
1. Code & Execution Step Interactive Scrubber
Step 1 of 3
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2. Stack & Heap Memory State
Owned &Shared &mut
Stack Frame (Fast Local Frame) Active Frame: main()
Heap Memory (Dynamic Allocations) Managed by RAII
Borrow Checker Diagnostics
βœ“ Aliasing XOR Mutability satisfied. Zero data races detected.
3. Under The Hood: Py vs Rs vs C++

🐍 Python (CPython GC)

Passes pointers by reference. All variables increment PyObject.ob_refcnt. Memory freed asynchronously by GC cycle when refcount reaches 0.

πŸ¦€ Rust (Affine Types)

Variable ownership moves at compile time. No garbage collection, no runtime overhead. Automatically deallocates (Drop) at end of owner scope.

βš™οΈ C++ (Manual / UB Risk)

Copy-by-default or raw pointers. Double-free, use-after-free, or iterator invalidation compiles cleanly but causes undefined behavior at runtime.
πŸ’‘ Why learn Rust after Python?

Rust teaches you the true hardware reality of memory, cache lines, and data layouts without allowing you to crash or corrupt memory with undefined behavior.

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