Summary
What a ride, huh? If you’ve got to the end of this chapter, you’ve done a fantastic job, and I have good news for you: you pretty much know everything about how Rust’s futures work and what makes them special already. All the complicated topics are covered.
In the next, and last, chapter, we’ll switch over from our hand-made coroutines to proper async/await. This will seem like a breeze compared to what you’ve gone through so far.
Before we continue, let’s stop for a moment and take a look at what we’ve learned in this chapter.
First, we expanded our coroutine implementation so that we could store variables across wait points. This is pretty important if our coroutine/wait syntax is going to rival regular synchronous code in readability and ergonomics.
After that, we learned how we could store and restore variables that held references, which is just as important as being able to store data.
Next, we saw firsthand...
