Owned and Reference values in Rust

Rust has 3 types of values:

• Owned values
• Shared Reference &x
• Exclusive Reference &mut x

Owned values are the values that don’t implement the Copy trait If you created a new struct or Enum It will be Owned type by default unless you derived the copy trait for that type

/// How to implement Copy trait
#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
struct Point {
	x: u8,
	y: u8
}

Take care making a struct to implement COPY trait shouldn’t work if the struct owns some value like String or Vector

/// Invalid
#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone)]
struct Employee {
	id: u32,
	name: String,
	salary: f64,
}

Owned values can be moved from variable to another or to be specific from a memory portion to another portion. Moving a value means memcpy in C language literally, you move a struct byte by byte from memory address X to new address Y