Rustacean Station Asynchronous Programming in Rust with Carl Fredrik Samson
Mar 17, 2024
Exploring async programming in Rust with Carl Fredrik Samson, covering green threads, fibers, benefits of async, book creation process, target audience, and evolution of async programming in Rust. Insights into writing a book on async programming, motivating factors, and discussions on navigating Rust podcasts and approaching async programming.
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Carl's Programming Journey
- Carl Fredrik Samson learned programming practically by solving business tasks, starting with Excel and other languages.
- His programming journey deepened when he encountered an IBM AS400 mainframe and needed to extract data.
Asynchronous Programming Explained
- Asynchronous programming creates an abstraction over concurrent operations, primarily for I/O, allowing tasks to be stopped and resumed.
- This involves a runtime scheduler working alongside the operating system scheduler, which can lead to complexities.
Benefits of Asynchronous Programming
- Asynchronous programming offers efficiency, crucial in a time of costly resources.
- It reduces overhead by managing tasks in user land, unlike OS threads that involve the OS scheduler.