Rust | Dereference Unary (*) Operator Examples

This simple repository shows the code snippets used in the article https://www.becomebetterprogrammer.com/rust-dereference-unix-operator/ to understand how the dereference unix operator works for all the different Rust pointers such as:

• Shared References (&)
• Mutable References (&mut)
• Raw pointers (*const and *mut)
• Smart Pointers

Requirements

This example codebase uses Rust programming language. Hence, you must have Rust properly installed in your machine if you want to run the code.

Refer to https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install to setup Rust in your local machine.

Do you want to run the code?

Clone this repo to your local machine. Open the terminal and run the command cargo run command.