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Course 19 - Ultimate Rust Crash Course | Episode 5: Rust Concurrency Fundamentals: Closures, Threads, and Channel Communication


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In this lesson, you’ll learn about:
  • Functional Programming with Closures:
    • Defining closures as anonymous functions that capture values from their surrounding scope.
    • Using closures with iterator methods like map, filter, and fold to transform data.
    • The difference between borrowing closures and move closures, and why move semantics are required for safe multi-threaded execution.
  • Multi-threaded Execution in Rust:
    • Spawning threads with thread::spawn and running closures as thread entry points.
    • Using join handles to wait for thread completion and handle potential panics.
    • Understanding performance trade-offs between OS threads and asynchronous models, and when to prefer threads versus async/await.
  • Inter-thread Communication with Channels:
    • Coordinating work between threads using message-passing channels.
    • Working with transmitters (TX) and receivers (RX), including cloning senders for multi-producer setups.
    • Leveraging high-performance channel implementations to support multiple receivers.
  • Synchronization and Program Lifecycle Management:
    • How thread scheduling and sleep timing affect execution order.
    • Ensuring clean shutdowns by closing channel senders and properly joining all threads.


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