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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)
Free Chapter
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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

Step 1 – Improving our runtime design by adding a Reactor and a Waker

In this step, we’ll make the following changes:

  1. Change the project structure so that it reflects our new design.
  2. Find a way for the executor to sleep and wake up that does not rely directly on Poll and create a Waker based on this that allows us to wake up the executor and identify which task is ready to progress.
  3. Change the trait definition for Future so that poll takes a &Waker as an argument.

Tip

You’ll find this example in the ch08/b-reactor-executor folder. If you follow along by writing the examples from the book, I suggest that you create a new project called b-reactor-executor for this example by following these steps:

1. Create a new folder called b-reactor-executor.

2. Enter the newly created folder and write cargo init.

3. Copy everything in the src folder in the previous example, a-runtime, into the src folder of a new project...