😱 Status quo
What is this?
The "status quo" section contains a number of narratives that illustrate the experience of using Async Rust today to achieve various kinds of tasks. These narratives highlight the biggest problems that we see in Async Rust today and help to bring those problems to life.
The narratives
The following narratives describe the experience of using Async Rust to build a number of different kinds of projects. These stories are fiction, but they are meant to be accurate representations of people's experiences; they are derived from the various status quo stories that were submitted while drafting the vision doc along with informal conversations and other sources.
- Authoring the DistriData service
- Implementing a web service that stores and replicates data on behalf of its clients.
- Creating a library for the SLOW protocol
- Creating a network protocol as a library on crates.io meant to be used across all kinds of servers.
- Developing MonsterMesh, a system of embedded sensors
- Using Async Rust on tiny nodes that run without an operating system, memory allocator, or other such niceties.
- Implementing a base64 decoding library
- Creating a reusable library meant to be used in both embedded and non-embedded environments.