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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

Leaf futures

Runtimes create leaf futures, which represent a resource such as a socket.

This is an example of a leaf future:

let mut stream = tokio::net::TcpStream::connect("127.0.0.1:3000");

Operations on these resources, such as a reading from a socket, will be non-blocking and return a future, which we call a leaf future since it’s the future that we’re actually waiting on.

It’s unlikely that you’ll implement a leaf future yourself unless you’re writing a runtime, but we’ll go through how they’re constructed in this book as well.

It’s also unlikely that you’ll pass a leaf future to a runtime and run it to completion alone, as you’ll understand by reading the next paragraph.