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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Technical requirements

This chapter focuses on epoll, which is specific to Linux. Unfortunately, epoll is not part of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) standard, so this example will require you to run Linux and won’t work with macOS, BSD, or Windows operating systems.

If you’re on a machine running Linux, you’re already set and can run the examples without any further steps.

If you’re on Windows, my recommendation is to set up WSL (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install), if you haven’t already, and install Rust on the Linux operating system running on WSL.

If you’re using Mac, you can create a virtual machine (VM) running Linux, for example, by using the QEMU-based UTM application (https://mac.getutm.app/) or any other solution for managing VMs on a Mac.

A last option is to rent a Linux server (there are even some providers with a free layer), install Rust, and either use an editor such as Vim or Emacs...