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Easily manage a chain of commits and their respective Pull Requests using git

This blog post was originally posted as a Q&A style answer on Stack Overflow. I recently edited the answer on Stack Overflow, with a slightly improved method, so I felt like sharing it on my personal blog would be beneficial too.

(A Q&A style question on Stack Overflow is a question that you answer at the same time as you ask the question, kind of like writing a blog post but right on Stack Overflow instead, under the guise of a question)

An overview of the concepts in async / await in Rust

Async / await in Rust promises to simplify concurrent code, and to allow a large number of concurrent tasks to be scheduled at the same time — with less overhead than the same number of OS Threads would require.

In general, async / await lets you write code that avoids "callback hell", in favor of a linear style similar to blocking code while still letting other tasks progress during awaits.

Strings in Rust

During the last 20 years I have used a number of garbage collected and reference counted programming languages. All of them have a single type for representing strings. Rust has two types of strings that can be stored in three different ways.

I want to shortly illustrate how Rust's strings interact with the heap, with the stack, and with the data segment of your binary, as well as shortly explain what those things are.

Rust 2020

We have all been called upon by the rust community to share our thoughts on what we want from Rust in 2020.