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Cancelling Async Rust

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Rust Foundation
RustConf 41:56 30392 views

Async Rust is a double-edged sword: the ease of cancelling in-progress work is both its superpower and its greatest weakness. Learn about the good and bad of async cancellation, and practical ways to mitigate the downsides.

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Rust Programming Language
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Unix signals are a complicated mess burdened with decades of legacy decisions. However, async Rust gives us the means to handle them effectively in services and command-line tools. In this talk, we'll explore ways to use async Rust to bring these powerful but idiosyncratic tools to bear on our own uses for CLI programs and services.