Getting Started with Tokio (opens in new tab)

I've been following futures since the announcement blog post came out (and had been using rust for several months before that) and I've never found a group of crates that intermix so well together. Simple stuff like tokio-tls implementing the Io trait from tokio-core so it can easily be used in bind_transport to secure the connection makes working with tokio and futures so nice. Thanks so much to the people working on this!

Thanks for writing this. I often find it difficult to wrap my head around some of these crates if I'm unfamiliar with the problem space. Often times if you haven't tried building a server before you won't know why you would use a crate like this. Having a high level overview of what you might use it for and a simple walked through example is really helpful.

The whole tokio stack is having an initial 0.1 release soon. It's incredibly highly anticipated.

>You can ignore all of the Box stuff; the reasoning behind that isn't terribly important right now.

What is the reason to box the futures? futures::finished and futures::failed both return FutureResult.

Very happy to see this, Tokio is still so primordial that it's sadly underdocumented. Looking forward to seeing that change in the coming year. :)