async & FFI: Not exactly a Love Story

Async programming isn't a simple affair when running an application written in one language. Unsurprisingly, when trying to combine two languages and code via Foreign Function Interfaces, and expose async interfaces that cross the language barrier, there are plenty of potential mistakes to make. In this talk we'll discuss async programming in general, idiomatic Rust async programming, and some of the pitfalls awaiting those who try to cross the language barrier.