Re:Zero-cost futures in Rust
by int_19h on Thursday August 11, 2016 @03:58PM
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Dealing with futures is fairly straightforward if the language offers some syntactic sugar for continuations (such as C#'s async/await that has been spreading around for some time now). Why doesn't it mix well with complex business rules?
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Re:Zero-cost futures in Rust
by davidgrenier on Thursday August 11, 2016 @10:08PM
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I'm not sure I would go as far as saying they can't. I'm quite comfortable with F#'s async computation expression and like them a lot.
You get a strange sense however when playing with Hopac (which btw has an analog sugar to F#'s async which works just fine) and going through the content in Reppy's book that the model is strictly more composable. I'd invite you to try it although I don't have a sense for the C# combinators.