Re:Rust’s async isn’t colored
by travisgriggs on Thursday March 11, 2021 @11:22AM
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Disclaimer: I am not a hard core consumer of async utilities and idioms.
Does anyone remember Aspect Oriented Programming? Past the peak of OOP excitement, there was a set of problems that OOP hadn't just made magically simple, and aspects were the solution. I recall it was always the same basic three examples that were used to illustrate why everyone needed them. Compilers were enhanced, libraries were written, lots of papers submitted, lots of conference sessions and talks. And then it all kind of faded away.
Is the async movement going to be a case of history rhyming with itself? I see some similarities (and of course some differences).
(If iOS Grand Central Dispatch is to be considered an async implementation, I consume a bit of async that way I guess)
Does anyone remember Aspect Oriented Programming? Past the peak of OOP excitement, there was a set of problems that OOP hadn't just made magically simple, and aspects were the solution. I recall it was always the same basic three examples that were used to illustrate why everyone needed them. Compilers were enhanced, libraries were written, lots of papers submitted, lots of conference sessions and talks. And then it all kind of faded away.
Is the async movement going to be a case of history rhyming with itself? I see some similarities (and of course some differences).
(If iOS Grand Central Dispatch is to be considered an async implementation, I consume a bit of async that way I guess)