Hands-On Microservices with Rust

Explicit versus implicit

Up until recently, there hasn't been a well-established approach to using Rust for writing asynchronous network applications. Previously, developers tended to use two styles: either explicit control structures to handle asynchronous operations or implicit context switching. The explicit nature of Rust meant that the first approach outgrew the second. Implicit context switching is used in concurrent programming languages such as Go, but this model does not suit Rust for a variety of reasons. First of all, it has design limitations and it's hard or even impossible to share implicit contexts between threads. This is because the standard Rust library uses thread-local data for some functions and the program can't change ...