THE VIDEO SHELF · rust async/await
Crust of Rust: async/await
Jon Gjengset's long live-coding Crust of Rust episode on async/await, focused on the mental model for using it rather than on Futures, Pin and Wakers internals. Topics include awaiting multiple futures, cancellation, executors and select.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a deep, practical dive for learning how Rust async works.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jon Gjengset
- Topic
- rust async/await
- Format
- tutorial
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Impressive! Especially the part on async where they built up the Future trait and runtime from first principles. If it interests you, these two videos are also great deep dives into Rust async [1] [2]. Rust's model is a little different from other languages in …
SnowProblem on Hacker News · 2023-08
In Learning Async Rust with Too Many Web Serversthere is a chapter on async in comprehensive rust and rustbook which ought to bring you up to speed there is the async book but it is largely unfinished you can watch John Gjengset's crust of rust async, decrusting tokio, and why what, and how …
lame_lexem on Hacker News · 2026-05
In Async Rust never left the MVP state
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