RustFest Zürich 2017 - Tokio: How we hit 88mph by Alex Crichton

[@kidcoder5359]

Disappointed that the talk is not call Fast and Asynchronous: Tokio Drift. But awesome talk, thanks.

[@jonarmani8654]

I'm disappointed that it wasn't called: You Can't Spell Rust Fest Without Futures

[@splittydev]

I always enjoy talks by Alex Crichton. Very professional and knowledgeable guy. Thanks for sharing!

[@PaulSebastianM]

Yes but the pacing is very jittery.

[@aiman_yt]

This is more informative than tokio documentations

[@TheOMGPoPCorn]

Great talk! Hope I will understand Tokio better in the near future. Futures are cool, but using Tokio just feels like abstracting everything as a stream.

[@PaulSebastianM]

Why isn't anyone using constructive/destructive interference to fix these large hall reverberations?

[@qhkmdev]

Futures looks similar to Promise in JS to me

[@MarkVolkmann]

A key difference is that Futures don’t automatically start when they are created. They start when await is applied to them. JS Promises start when they are created.

[@dmitrij34]

Biff gives sports almanac to himself in the past. Not his father.

[@dmitrij34]

Nice Presentation BTW :)

[@RustVideos]

We'll make sure that we improve our meme and retro movie training. Alex will have to take it again.

[@blackwhattack]

@@RustVideos How can I now trust anything he said if he makes a mistake IN THE MOST SUBSTANTIAL IMPACTFUL SUBJECT!!!!!!!!!.

[@pm71241]

Could someone enlighten me ... isn't this just Python Twisted for Rust?

[@GrayOlson]

Not sure what you mean by "just"--most languages have a "future-like" scheme of some sort for async, the point is building the right version of that in rust with the language's goals in mind. Tokio may do a similar thing to python twisted, but given that it's written in rust, it's significantly faster and provides all the great guarantees that rust does--memory safety, safe concurrency, etc etc.

[@ac130kz]

not to mention that Python's queue was not thread-safe before a recent patch....

[@peter9477]

More like Python's asyncio at least as far as the API goes. Twisted is just callback hell, a bit like JS Promises. They're all forms of async programming, but not all async techniques are created equal.