Building a Key-Value Store with non-blocking I/O in 60 lines of Rust code

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Introduction

In 2016, I just finished my classes for the day and was sitting at Caffe Strada in Berkeley. I read an email about a new programming language called “rust”. Intrigued, I downloaded the build system and started trying to learn the language. However, I quickly grew frustrated at the strict rules of the language and what…