In an effort to understand the internals of asynchronous runtimes, I’ve been spending time reading Tokio’s source code. I’ve still got a long way to go but it has been a great journey so far. The one thing that's helped improve my Rust (and general computing knowledge) the most has been reading Tokio's and smol-rs' code base. It's been interesting watching myself going from mind-boggling confusion to reading parts and thinking, "this all makes sense". Read more

In Rust, you often hear about state machines. Futures are state machines! I thought it would be cool to read more about it. I came across this blog post (funnily enough, by a friend and mentor of mine) which really helped me! I highly recommend reading it. In this post, I’m just noting the part I found relevant. The example here is from her blog post. P.S.A: Go and read that post 😆 Read more

Some time ago, I came across two challenges with implemeting traits: Implementing a trait on another trait Using multiple, separate traits bounds on a trait implementation Implementing a trait on another trait Honestly, I’ve forgotten why I wanted to do this. Nonetheless, this is not possible in Rust. And rightfully so, can you imagine how much of a mess that would be? However, the way around this is through a neat Rust feature: trait bounds! Read more