You're reading from Asynchronous Programming in Rust Learn asynchronous programming by building working examples of futures, green threads, and runtimes

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805128137

Length 306 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Carl Fredrik Samson

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Asynchronous Programming Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Concurrency and Asynchronous Programming: a Detailed Overview

3. Chapter 2: How Programming Languages Model Asynchronous Program Flow

4. Chapter 3: Understanding OS-Backed Event Queues, System Calls, and Cross-Platform Abstractions

5. Part 2:Event Queues and Green Threads

6. Chapter 4: Create Your Own Event Queue

7. Chapter 5: Creating Our Own Fibers

8. Part 3:Futures and async/await in Rust

9. Chapter 6: Futures in Rust

10. Chapter 7: Coroutines and async/await

11. Chapter 8: Runtimes, Wakers, and the Reactor-Executor Pattern

12. Chapter 9: Coroutines, Self-Referential Structs, and Pinning

13. Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Runtime

14. Index

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How to use the repository alongside the book

The recommended way to read this chapter is to have the repository open alongside the book. In the repository, you’ll find three different folders that correspond to the examples we go through in this chapter:

ch05/a-stack swap
ch05/b-show-stack
ch05/c-fibers

In addition, you will get two more examples that I refer to in the book but that should be explored in the repository:

ch05/d-fibers-closure: This is an extended version of the first example that might inspire you to do more complex things yourself. The example tries to mimic the API used in the Rust standard library using std::thread::spawn.
ch05/e-fibers-windows: This is a version of the example that we go through in this book that works on both Unix-based systems and Windows. There is a quite detailed explanation in the README of the changes we make for the example work on Windows. I consider this recommended reading if you want to dive deeper...