Basic Collections

Dive into basic collections in Rust, such as arrays and vectors, enabling you to store and manipulate data effectively.

In Rust, the term collection typically refers to data structures that can store multiple values. Collections provide a way to organize and manipulate groups of data. Rust has several built-in collection types, each with its own characteristics and use cases. In this lesson, we’ll work with vectors. Vectors are dynamic arrays that can grow or shrink in size.

Now that we’ve how collections can be initialized and populated, let’s have a look at how we can perform operations on the collections, such as iterating over them and making use of the individual elements.

In Rust, arrays differ from collections like vectors. Arrays have a fixed size set at compile-time and store elements of the same type sequentially in memory. Unlike collections, arrays cannot grow or shrink dynamically. They are suited for scenarios requiring a fixed-size, contiguous sequence of elements.

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