Asynchronous Rust with Tyler Mandry

Allen Wyma talks with Tyler Mandry (twitter.com/tmandry), lead on Rust Async Working Group (rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/welcome.html). Rust Async Working Group is focused around implementation/design of the “foundations” for Async I/O.

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Timestamps

• [@0:10] - Async Working Group introduction

• [@3:08] - Async progress over the past few years

• [@5:16] - The Fuchsia operating system and its goals

• [@6:19] - How much of Fushia is written in Rust?

• [@8:16] - The experience of using Rust in Fuchsia so far

• [@17:29] - Why are async runtimes not compatible with each other, and how might it be solved?

• [@23:06] - How does the working group handle feedback?

• [@25:33] - What’s the most important issue the working group is working on?

• [@32:45] - Different types of async runtimes

• [@34:36] - Turning synchronous into async

• [@39:36] - How did Tyler go from async C++ to async Rust?

• [@47:14] - Tyler’s code and documentation writing

• [@54:21] - Where to connect with Tyler

Other Resources

• Tyler’s Blog (tmandry.gitlab.io/blog)

Credits

Intro Theme: twitter.com/AerocityMusic

Audio Editing: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset (twitter.com/jonhoo)

Show Notes: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosts: Allen Wyma (twitter.com/allenwyma)