Please consider the example code in the Rust documentation for copy_from_slice:
It occurs to me that this u8 is initialised as all zeroes and then immediately overwritten. I've noted that if you change the declaration to:
let mut dst: [u8; 2];
You'll get a compile error for
`dst` used here but it isn't initialized
I'm just a bit confused about how you're "using" that value at all if all you're doing is immediately attempting to copy data over the top of it (which is what I would like to call "initialising") without looking at it. Which I guess noone cares about for this example, but I'm currently writing some code with a number of larger buffers and the workflow just seems off.
Because having a reference to uninitialized data is UB, and that method takes an exclusive reference. (Also consider if you tried that on an uninitialized [String; 2]. You'd try to deallocate garbage when you overwrote the uninitialized values.)
The compiler is usually smart enough to optimize that initialization away. For cases where you're sure it's not, see MaybeUninit.
Note that even if it weren't UB to have a reference to uninitialized data, this wouldn't compile.
Mutable references can be read from (they are not write-only), so the compiler couldn't just assume based on the signature that the function only writes to dst and doesn't read from it.