Suggestion for new chapters: async, closures, multithread

[mgemard]

from reddit feedback

What do you think?

[richardanaya]

I feel like this is a good idea! I could see there being two chapters:

• explaining closures and showing their use in multithreaded programming and maybe a breif commentary on mutexes
• a chapter fully on async and executors

[oblitum]

Just saying, I'm waiting on this one to arrive to take the tour :)

[oblitum]

Bit off-topic. There was a recent blog post that got awesome feedback for its crystal clear and succinct explanation of Rust's module system. Maybe Tour of Rust can borrow its approach to explain that?

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/htzkq7/clear_explanation_of_rusts_module_system/

[richardanaya]

I was thinking about this this morning, I think async/await could be explained in a chapter. I'm going to think it over this weekend. All the parts seem here:

• rust playground has tokio support for an executor
• it doesnt require explaining multithreading issues
• it's conceptually similar to javascript, so nothing too advanced