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RustLatam 2019 - Without Boats: Zero-Cost Async IO

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What it is

Without Boats, a Rust language team member, explains the design of Rust's async/await at RustLatam 2019. He covers the history and constraints behind zero-cost, allocation-free async state machines.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended during the await syntax debates for explaining the constraints that shaped Rust's async design.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “I really loved this talk by Without Boats”

    Explains constraints behind Rust async design

    sgrove, 2019-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Update on await syntax in Rust”

  2. “Boats' keynote at rust-latam goes into some more detail as well.”

    Keynote gives more detail on the await syntax decision

    holy_city, 2019-05 · Recommendation · in “A final proposal for Rust await syntax”

  3. “if you are interested in the Rust story (history and evolution) this is an interesting talk”

    Interesting talk on Rust async history and evolution

    AlexanderDhoore, 2019-10 · Recommendation · in “Why async fn in traits are hard”

  4. “I thought this talk about Async in Rust was pretty cool”

    Cool talk about async in Rust

    teddyc, 2019-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Best Talks of 2019?”

  5. “There are some great videos about it”

    Great videos on Rust's allocation-free async state machines

    xiphias2, 2020-04 · Recommendation · in “I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: rust, async/await, zero-cost abstractions, futures, language design

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