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Asynchronous Programming in Rust

By : Carl Fredrik Samson
5 (2)
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

Improving our example 2 – references

Let’s set everything up for our next version of this example:

  • Create a new folder called b-coroutines-references and copy everything from a-coroutines-variables over to it
  • You can change the name of the project so that it corresponds with the folder by changing the name attribute in the package section in Cargo.toml, but it’s not something you need to do for the example to work

Note

You can find this example in this book’s GitHub repository in the ch10/b-coroutines-references folder.

This time, we’ll learn how to store references to variables in our coroutines by using the following coroutine/wait example program:

use std::fmt::Write;
coroutine fn async_main() {
    let mut buffer = String::from("\nBUFFER:\n----\n");
    let writer = &mut buffer;
    println!("Program starting");
    ...