Chapter 5

Ownership & Memory Safety

Ownership is Blyx’s most unique feature and enables memory safety guarantees without needing a garbage collector.

Ownership Rules

• Each value in Blyx has an owner.
• There can only be one owner at a time.
• When the owner goes out of scope, the value is dropped automatically.

let s1 = String::from("hello");
let s2 = s1; // s1 ownership moves to s2
// s1 is no longer valid here