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Rahul Sharma
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Rahul Sharma is passionately curious about teaching programming. He has been writing software for the last two years. He got started with Rust with his work on Servo, a browser engine by Mozilla Research as part of his GSoC project. At present, he works at AtherEnergy, where he is building resilient cloud infrastructure for smart scooters. His interests include systems programming, distributed systems, compilers and type theory. He is also an occasional contributor to the Rust language and does mentoring of interns on the Servo project by Mozilla.
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Advanced traits

In this section, we'll discuss some of the advanced traits that are important to know when we are dealing with complex code bases.

Sized and ?Sized

The Sized trait is a marker trait that represents types whose sizes are known at compile time. It is implemented for most types in Rust except for unsized types. All type parameters have an implicit trait bound of Sized in their definition. We can also specify optional trait bounds using the ? operator before a trait, but the ? operator with traits only works for marker traits as the time of writing this book. It may be extended to other types in future.

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Rahul Sharma

Rahul Sharma is passionately curious about teaching programming. He has been writing software for the last two years. He got started with Rust with his work on Servo, a browser engine by Mozilla Research as part of his GSoC project. At present, he works at AtherEnergy, where he is building resilient cloud infrastructure for smart scooters. His interests include systems programming, distributed systems, compilers and type theory. He is also an occasional contributor to the Rust language and does mentoring of interns on the Servo project by Mozilla.
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