async/await intro

[anguslees]

Timed to roughly coincide with the Rust 1.39 release: a Rust async/await intro talk.

• Background and alternatives (Futures 0.1, green threads, kernel threads)
• That Pin thing
• How to use it in practice
• Common workarounds for the missing bits

(I'm no expert in the area, but I have been reading and following the upstream developments, and writing async code against the beta.)

[clintonmead]

This is a talk I'd like to listen too. I don't really know a lot about this area and it would be great to get up to speed.