Rust 101 - 35: Futures

Exploring what a Future is in async Rust and how we could manually write code that polls futures. Normally, we avoid this manual work by using the async and await keywords, but looking into this helps us understand what those keywords really do.

Series: Language basics, More syntax, Traits and generics, Building applications, Concurrency and parallelism, Trait objects, Async, Unsafe, FFI

This section (Async): 34: What is async?, 35: Futures, 36: async/await, 37: Runtimes, 38: Exercise E1a, 39: Exercise E1b, 40: Exercise E2a, 41: Exercise E2b

Links:

• Slides: Rust 101 - module E
• Exercises: artificialworlds.net/presentations/rust-101/exercises/E-async-web/mod.html

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