Rust 101 - 37: Async runtimes

We talked about how Futures have poll methods, but who calls them? That is the job of the runtime. We talk about how to launch your async code and how to choose the right runtime, and then we have a very brief look at some Web frameworks that are based on async Rust.

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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