Async-await on stable Rust
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Async-await on stable Rust
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Re: Async-await on stable Rust
#2This is big! Turns out that syntactic support for asynchronous programming in Rust isn't just syntactic: it enables the compiler to reason about the lifetimes in asynchronous code in a way that wasn't possible to implement in libraries. The end result of having async/await syntax is that async code reads just like normal Rust, which definitely wasn't the case before. This is a huge improvement in usability.
Re: Async-await on stable Rust
#3This is great news!
I tried out Rust for a typical server-side app over a year ago (JSON API and PostgreSQL backend), and the lack of async-await was the main reason I switched back to Typescript afterwards, even though Diesel is probably the best ORM I've ever worked with. Time to give it a try again.
Re: Async-await on stable Rust
#4This is going to open the flood gates. I am sure lot of people were just waiting for this moment for Rust adoption. I for one was definitely in this boat.
Also, this has all the goodness: open-source, high quality engineering, design in open, large contributors to a complex piece of software. Truly inspiring!
Re: Async-await on stable Rust
#5This is going to open the flood gates. I am sure lot of people were just waiting for this moment for Rust adoption. I for one was definitely in this boat. Also, this has all the goodness: open-source, high quality engineering, design in open, large contributors to a complex piece of software. Truly inspiring!
Are there that many people looking for a new low level language for server side software?
Re: Async-await on stable Rust
#6Thank you Alex Crichton, Niko Matsakis and all other core devs, Rust is by far the most well designed programming language I've ever dealt with. It's a masterpiece of software engineering IMO.
Re: Async-await on stable Rust
#7This is big! Turns out that syntactic support for asynchronous programming in Rust isn't just syntactic: it enables the compiler to reason about the lifetimes in asynchronous code in a way that wasn't possible to implement in libraries. The end result of having async/await syntax is that async code reads just like normal Rust, which definitely wasn't the case before. This is a huge improvement in usability.
Why would it be different for async code than sync code? The goal of Rust's checker is to track lifetime of an object so for example it knows that at the end of a function the object should be freed. Async shouldn't matter here.
Re: Async-await on stable Rust
#8This is big! Turns out that syntactic support for asynchronous programming in Rust isn't just syntactic: it enables the compiler to reason about the lifetimes in asynchronous code in a way that wasn't possible to implement in libraries. The end result of having async/await syntax is that async code reads just like normal Rust, which definitely wasn't the case before. This is a huge improvement in usability.
Why would it be different for async code than sync code? The goal of Rust's checker is to track lifetime of an object so for example it knows that at the end of a function the object should be freed. Async shouldn't matter here.
In Rust, it is normally not possible or at least very difficult to create structs where one field references another, and if you were to create a future that borrows some field, awaits a future, and uses the borrowed field, the resulting future will need to have a field with a reference to another.
This is the challenge and async await lets you make this kind of self referential types without unsafe code.
Re: Async-await on stable Rust
#9This is going to open the flood gates. I am sure lot of people were just waiting for this moment for Rust adoption. I for one was definitely in this boat. Also, this has all the goodness: open-source, high quality engineering, design in open, large contributors to a complex piece of software. Truly inspiring!
Are there that many people looking for a new low level language for server side software?
I think so. Off-course this is my belief and based on different opinions/experiences shared by people over last 3-4 years.
Re: Async-await on stable Rust
#10How does rust perform in parallel on the same memory?
I heard it uses locks?
This is not on the same memory right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21469295
If you want to do joint (on the same memory) parallel HTTP with Java I have a stable solution for you: https://github.com/tinspin/rupy