Or, a GhostCell Deep Dive. In this two-part series, we build GhostCell from first principles. In Part I we go over the underlying theory required to understand GhostCell. This post’s been sitting on my hard drive for about 9 months, so I’ve decided to bite the bullet, split what I’ve written in two, and hit publish on Part I. Hope you enjoy! Over the past month or so, something I’ve repeatedly run into is GhostCell, a technique that (ab)uses Rust’s lifetime system to detach ownershi...
