Link roundup #7

Zero-cost futures in Rust:
Standardizing how futures / deferreds work in a language is a good idea. Python did something similar (and beyond) with asyncio and PEP 3156. JavaScript / ECMAScript 6 also defined Promises. I'm happy to see Rust do this early. I think there are some details that will make this tricky in practice since Rust doesn't have GC, so we'll see.

Google’s QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP:
My skills are officially obsolete. I know HTTP 1.1 and TCP pretty well. I really need to understand the details of HTTP 2.0 and QUIC beyond the high-level architecture. I don't want to become a dinosaur who only knows UUCP or XNS. I've often wondered what it feels like to be an old, but still working programmer. This is probably part of it.

Working remotely:
This is a wonderful guide on how to be a thoughtful collaborator. Except for the "Before you get hired" section, almost all of the advice applies to non-remote (local?) working as well.

PyFlux:
Really cool library for working with time series in Python. See this Jupyter notebook for some compelling examples. I'm happy to see it works with Python 3 and is built on NumPy, SciPy, and Pandas.

What’s New in C# 7.0:
I surprisingly enjoyed using C# last year after ignoring it for years. It appears that the language is getting even more features with the next release. I don't think that's a good thing; some of what they're introducing seems overly complicated (e.g., out variable declarations).