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Asynchronous Programming in Rust

By : Carl Fredrik Samson
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Book Image

Asynchronous Programming in Rust

5 (2)
By: Carl Fredrik Samson

Overview of this book

Step into the world of asynchronous programming with confidence by conquering the challenges of unclear concepts with this hands-on guide. Using functional examples, this book simplifies the trickiest concepts, exploring goroutines, fibers, futures, and callbacks to help you navigate the vast Rust async ecosystem with ease. You’ll start by building a solid foundation in asynchronous programming and explore diverse strategies for modeling program flow. The book then guides you through concepts like epoll, coroutines, green threads, and callbacks using practical examples. The final section focuses on Rust, examining futures, generators, and the reactor-executor pattern. You’ll apply your knowledge to create your own runtime, solidifying expertise in this dynamic domain. Throughout the book, you’ll not only gain proficiency in Rust's async features but also see how Rust models asynchronous program flow. By the end of the book, you'll possess the knowledge and practical skills needed to actively contribute to the Rust async ecosystem.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Part 1:Asynchronous Programming Fundamentals
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Part 2:Event Queues and Green Threads
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Part 3:Futures and async/await in Rust

Improving our base example

We’ll create a version of the first example in Chapter 7 since it’s the simplest one to start with. Our only focus is showing how to schedule and drive the runtimes more efficiently.

We start with the following steps:

  1. Create a new project and name it a-runtime (alternatively, navigate to ch08/a-runtime in the book’s repository).
  2. Copy the future.rs and http.rs files in the src folder from the first project we created in Chapter 7, named a-coroutine (alternatively, copy the files from ch07/a-coroutine in the book’s repository) to the src folder in our new project.
  3. Make sure to add mio as a dependency by adding the following to Cargo.toml:
    [dependencies]
    mio = { version = "0.8", features = ["net", "os-poll"] }
  4. Create a new file in the src folder called runtime.rs.

We’ll use corofy to change the following coroutine/wait program into its state machine representation that...