Getting Started with Tokio

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.

&gt;You can ignore all of the Box stuff; the reasoning behind that isn&#x27;t terribly important right now.<p>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&#x27;s sadly underdocumented. Looking forward to seeing that change in the coming year. :)