Hi, learning raw pointers I stumbled over raw pointer cleanup pre-RFC by @Gankra
What could this possibly mean?
*mut T is invariant over T
My aim is just to understand Rust better 
Thx,
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I don't understand much, but the nomicon has a section on this:
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That section is basically my best explanation on the topic.
Variance honestly doesn't matter too much as far as I can tell, but it does make some things easier to deal with. All that it really does is allow you to pass long-lived things where a short-lived thing was expected. (Perhaps) surprisingly this isn't always sound to do, as the nomicon goes into detail (with mutability it can let you give a short-lived thing to someone who thought they had a long-lived thing).
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