tialaramex • today at 5:54 PM

When you make a local variable with a Goose in Java, that's a heap allocation

    Goose jim = make_a_goose_somehow();  // Java, so jim is on the Heap, no way around it

When you make that variable in Rust...

    let jim : Goose = make_a_goose_somehow();  // Rust, jim is on the stack

Now, if we make a bunch of geese, maybe in a loop, and we put them into our growable array type...

    ArrayList<Goose> geese = new ArrayList<Goose>();
    // ... some loop eventually
      Goose a_goose = somehow_get_this_goose();   // That's an allocation
      geese.add(a_goose);

But in Rust...

    let geese: Vec<Goose> = Vec::new();
    // ... some loop eventually
      let a_goose : Goose = somehow_get_this_goose(); // But this is not
      geese.push(a_goose);