Design & Explanation

Contents

• Why Asynchrony?
  • The Problem of Synchronous I/O
  • Threads: Not Good Enough
  • Does this Actually Matter?
• Design Considerations in amongoc
  • No Global Context
  • No Threads Required
  • No Prescribed Event Loop
  • Air-Tight Ownership & Lifetime Semantics Are Mandatory
  • Asynchrony Should Be Composable
• Our Asynchrony Model
  • Emitters & Handlers
  • Prior Art - Senders & Receivers