marcusklaas/async_chat_demo

async chat demo

This is a demo of an asynchronous chat server usync Rust's new async functionality and the async_std library. The code here is mostly from the excellent async_std tutorial.

running the code

At the time of writing, async is still unstable. You will need a nightly version of rustc to compile this.

Run the server using

cargo run --bin server

and start a client using

cargo run --bin client

The first line entered into the client is used as a user name. The following lines are interpreted as messages using the following syntax:

login1, login2, ... loginN: message