Preface

The content in this book was initially written as a series of shorter books for programmers wanting to learn asynchronous programming from the ground up using Rust. I found the existing material I came upon at the time to be in equal parts frustrating, enlightening, and confusing, so I wanted to do something about that.

Those shorter books became popular, so when I got the chance to write everything a second time, improve the parts that I was happy with, and completely rewrite everything else and put it in a single, coherent book, I just had to do it. The result is right in front of you.

People start programming for a variety of different reasons. Scientists start programming to model problems and perform calculations. Business experts ...

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