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Lifetimes in Rust aren’t that hard
- Rust's lifetimes play a crucial role in memory management and preventing dangling references.
- Generic lifetime annotations ensure that return values do not outlive their corresponding arguments.
- Returning references to local variables can lead to dangling references if not handled correctly.
- In Rust, 'static lifetimes are used for string literals and data intentionally leaked to live for the entire program duration.
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