Master asynchronous Rust through examples focusing on key concepts
Build a solid understanding of concepts such as coroutines, fibers, futures, and callbacks
Explore Rust's futures, craft your own runtime, and excel in handling stacks, ABIs, syscalls, and inline assembly
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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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for programmers who want to enhance their understanding of asynchronous programming, especially those experienced in VM’ed or interpreted languages like C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, and Go. If you work with C or C++ but have had limited exposure to asynchronous programming, this book serves as a resource to broaden your knowledge in this area. Although the examples are predominantly in Rust, the intricacies of Rust’s futures are covered in detail. So, anyone with a keen interest in learning Rust or with working knowledge of Rust will be able to get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

Explore the essence of asynchronous program flow and its significance
Understand the difference between concurrency and parallelism
Gain insights into how computers and operating systems handle concurrent tasks
Uncover the mechanics of async/await
Understand Rust's futures by implementing them yourself
Implement green threads from scratch to thoroughly understand them

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jml Oct 21, 2024

Asynchronous Programming in Rust provides extremely readable in-depth coverage of the title topic. The first couple of chapters introduce the reader to asynchronous programming in general, and they’re so well written that the book’s worth the purchase price for that alone. Threads, abstractions, and OS queueing theory receive understandable, comprehensive coverage so the reader’s well-equipped to take on the Rust-specific content that follows.I particularly liked the OS/architecture and hardware coverage, including an introduction to assembly language and discussion of scheduler operations. It’s important for anyone attempting to write asynchronous code to understand how the OS and hardware layers work with user-level abstractions and routines, and this book delivers that nicely.The author’s do-it-by-hand and then examine-Rust’s-way approach provides a solid understanding of how the language supports asynchronous programming. Async/await and futures are clearly explained and diagrams throughout the work provide a visual check of the reader’s understanding. All in all, this should be required reading for anyone doing async work in Rust, and I’d recommend it for any Rust programmer in general.

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Haroldo Vinente Oct 15, 2024

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Anonymized Oct 03, 2024

The binding of the book was really poor, pages started falling out on first readingThe book itself is a good read, pity it was in a bad condition

Vladimir Krivopalov Sep 13, 2024

This book explores the topic of asynchronous programming in great detail, starting from the basics and building simplified yet fully working solutions to show how things work in real systems. A great read for both Rust developers and anyone interested in learning asynchronous programming.

Client d'Amazon Aug 27, 2024

Uses a lot of words to say very little. A copious amount of time is spent showing architecture and ABI specific methods just to argue that there are frameworks to avoid this. There is lot of excessive verbiage, word repetition, starting on a subject just to put it aside so it can be adressed later and vague if not dubious claims. While some sections are good, others read like a cut & paste from a Teams meeting transcript with a seasoning of LLM. Graphs in black and white using legends with color allude to the "free" PDF available for download, after you agree to their terms and submit a "proof of purchase". There is still some interesting content and the examples work, so if it is ok for the reader to partake in the author's learning notes it could be worth the purchase, but is not a reference.

Asynchronous Programming in Rust: Learn asynchronous programming by building working examples of futures, green threads, and runtimes

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