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Box<T> for Allocating Data on the Heap

Welcome to a new chapter on some of Rust's most powerful memory management features. We'll begin our exploration of smart pointers with the most straightforward one: Box. A Box is a smart pointer that allows you to store data on the heap instead of the stack. It's a fundamental tool for managing memory and enabling certain data structures in Rust.

Project: Building a Simple Linked List with Smart Pointers

This series has covered a wide range of smart pointers and memory management techniques. Now it's time to put that knowledge into practice with a classic computer science data structure: the singly linked list. This project will demonstrate why Box is essential for recursive data structures and how to handle ownership and memory management correctly.