Async

waking wakers & futuring futures — or — Building a future executor

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I built an async runtime for a project of mine. Apparently that's fancy enough that people want to to blog about that. So here it goes, a write-along journey so you can build your very own async runtime!

This is the first post talking about the async runtime itself and the first that shows code and not just talkes about showing code.

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Preamble: Philosophising about futures

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I built an async runtime for a project of mine. Apparently that's fancy enough that people want to to blog about that. So here it goes, a write-along journey so you can build your very own async runtime!

This first post is more theoretical, explaining how futures work in more detail, doing the groundwork for later.

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