Book #24 - Rust for Rustaceans (with a chapter from Programming Rust, 2nd edition, on asynchronous programming)

Rust for Rustaceans
by Jon Gjengset (2022)

Tuesday evenings, 5 pm pacific time / 7 pm central time

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/the-south-padre-island-reading-group/events/284691344/
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84281187589
Discord: https://bit.ly/35RhGXM
No Starch Press: https://nostarch.com/rust-rustaceans

March 22, 2022

Provisionally, we are done with this book now, at least the chapters we were interested in doing. We might come back to discuss the final chapter, Chapter 13 The Rust Ecosystem.

Chapter 10 Concurrency (and Parallelism) March 22, 2022	Presenter
The Trouble with Concurrency
Concurrency Models
Asynchrony and Parallelism
Lower-level Concurrency
Sane Concurrency

Chapter 20 - Programming Rust, 2nd edition Asynchronous Programming March 15, 2022	Presenter
From Synchronous to Asynchronous	Casey & Karthik
An Asynchronous Client and Server
Primitive Futures and Executors: When is a Future Worth Polling Again?
Pinning
When is Asynchronous Code Helpful?

Chapter 8 Asynchronous Programming March 1, 2022 March 22, 2022	Presenter
What’s the Deal with Asynchrony?	Casey
Ergonomic Futures \| async/await	Casey
\| Pin and unpin	Karthik
Going to Sleep
Tying It All Together with spawn

Chapter 7 Macros February 22, 2021	Presenter
Declarative Macros \| When to Use Them \| How They Work	Casey
Declarative Macros \| How to Write Declarative Macros	Karthik
Procedural Macros \| Types of Procedural Macros \| The Cost of Procedural Macros	Karthik
Procedural Macros \| So You Think You Want a Macro	Casey
Procedural Macros \| How Do They Work?	Casey

Chapter 6 Testing February 15, 2022	Presenter
Rust Testing Mechanisms \| The Test Harness	Casey
Rust Testing Mechanisms \| #[cfg(test)]	Karthik
Rust Testing Mechanisms \| Doctests	Casey
Additional Testing Tools \| Linting Additional Testing Tools \| Test Generation	Viktor
Additional Testing Tools \| Test Augmentation Additional Testing Tools \| Performance Testing	Raj

Notes:

Here is some interesting supplementary material on the issue Karthik and I were discussing
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/resolver.html (see Version-incompatibility hazards)
https://github.com/dtolnay/semver-trick
Let’s discuss this briefly at our next session.

Chapter 5 Project Structure February 8, 2022	Presenter
Features	Karthik
Workspaces	Viktor
Project Configuration	Casey
Conditional Compilation	Raj
Versioning	Casey

Chapter 4 Error Handling February 1, 2022	Presenter
Representing Errors \| Enumeration	Casey
Representing Errors \| Opaque Errors	Casey
Representing Errors \| Special Error Cases	Karthik
Propagating Errors	Karthik

Chapter 3 Designing Interfaces January 18, 2022 January 25, 2022	Presenter
Unsurprising \| Naming Practices,, Common Traits for Types	Casey - January 18
Unsurprising \| Ergonomic Trait Implementations, Wrapper Types	Casey - January 25
Flexible \| Generic Arguments	Victor
Flexible \| Object Safety	Victor
Flexible \| Borrowed vs. Owned	Victor
Flexible \| Fallible and Blocking Destructors	Victor
Obvious \| Documentation	Karthik
Obvious \| Type System Guidance	Karthik
Constrained \| Type Modifications	Casey
Constrained \| Type Implementations	Casey
Constrained \| Hidden Contracts	Casey

Chapter 2 Types December 21, 2021 January 11, 2022 January 18, 2022	Presenter
Types in Memory \| Alignment	Victor S - December 21
Types in Memory \| Layout	Victor S - January 11
Types in Memory \| Complex Types, Dynamically Sized Types and Wide Pointers	Karthik - January 11
Traits and Trait Bounds \| Compilation and Dispatch	Casey - January 11
Traits and Trait Bounds \| Generic Traits	Casey - January 11
Traits and Trait Bounds \| Coherence and the Orphan Rule	Casey - January 11
Traits and Trait Bounds \| Trait Bounds	Karthik - January 18
Traits and Trait Bounds \| Marker Traits	Karthik - January 18
Existential Types	Karthik - January 18

Chapter 1 Foundations December 7, 2021 December 14, 2021 December 21, 2021 (Lifetimes)	Presenter
Talking About Memory	Casey - continuing on December 14 at “shadowing” (p. 4)
Ownership	Jens - December 14
Borrowing and Lifetimes \| Shared References	Vin - December 14
Borrowing and Lifetimes \| Mutable References	Victor S - December 14
Borrowing and Lifetimes \| Interior Mutability	Victor S - December 14
Borrowing and Lifetimes \| Lifetimes	Karthik - December 21