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How does Rust enforce thread safety using Send and Sync traits?

Updated May 24, 2026

Short answer

Send enables ownership transfer; Sync enables shared reference safety.

Deep explanation

Compiler ensures that non-thread-safe types cannot be shared across threads. Interior mutability types are restricted unless synchronized.

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