The Number One and Most Important Issue That the Working Group Is Working on at the Moment

Allen Wyma talks with Tyler Mandry, lead on Rust Async Working Group. Rust Async Working Group is focused around implementation/design of the “foundations” for Async I/O.

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Timestamps

• [@0:10] - Async Working Group introduction
• [@3:08] - Async progress over the past few years
• [@5:16] - The Fuchsia operating system and its goals
• [@6:19] - How much of Fushia is written in Rust?
• [@8:16] - The experience of using Rust in Fuchsia so far
• [@17:29] - Why are async runtimes not compatible with each other, and how might it be solved?
• [@23:06] - How does the working group handle feedback?
• [@25:33] - What’s the most important issue the working group is working on?
• [@32:45] - Different types of async runtimes
• [@34:36] - Turning synchronous into async
• [@39:36] - How did Tyler go from async C++ to async Rust?
• [@47:14] - Tyler’s code and documentation writing
• [@54:21] - Where to connect with Tyler

Other Resources

• Tyler’s Blog

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma