Niko Matsakis
Niko Matsakis
Possible example: when you call an async function in JS, it begins executing immediately, and executes concurrently, whereas Rust futures are lazy.
Can you say a bit more, @rgreinho? What caused you not to succeed, for example?
@rgreinho any chance you want to join a "vision doc writing session" and talk about this? What time zone are you in? :)
[This week's writing sessions](https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2021/03/29/async-vision-doc-writing-sessions-iii/) -- I expect we'll schedule more for next week.
The basic format is that the host asks you (and others) a bunch of questions about your experiences and then we try to collectively write a story about one of...
Can you say more about > Suppose we want a callback of sorts to be notified of some event (network packet received, keystroke, internal event between subsystems) In particular, you...
I'm trying to think how to turn this into a story -- I'd love to read more about it.
Something I've been thinking over -- that seems to be a latent theme in a few stories -- is "environmental state". That is, having access to some shared resources which...
@AldaronLau that's great, thanks! Another approach worth citing (though it has limitations) is the [`agnostik`](https://crates.io/crates/agnostik) crate. From what I can tell, it supports spawning tasks primarily. It is a facade...
Collecting links is good, but I'd like to focus for now on the challenges -- what is difficult now (and what works well now)? I'd like to hold off on...