# Understanding Ownership | |
Ownership is Rust’s most unique feature and has deep implications for the rest | |
of the language. It enables Rust to make memory safety guarantees without | |
needing a garbage collector, so it’s important to understand how ownership | |
works. In this chapter, we’ll talk about ownership as well as several related | |
features: borrowing, slices, and how Rust lays data out in memory. |