Rust Doesn’t Need a Garbage Collector — Here’s Why
By Ugochukwu Chizaram Omumusinachi. Updated Mon Aug 11 2025If you're coming from a language like Python or JavaScript, you're used to not worrying about memory. When you're done with a value, the garbage collector quietly comes in and frees that memory for you. It’s automatic, and most of the time, it just works.
So now you're probably thinking: How does a low-level, statically typed language like Rust manage to do the same — but without a garbage collector?
The answer lies in two things: RAII and strict scope management.

RAII stands for Resource Acquisition Is Initialization — which is just a fancy way of saying: